Tag: television

  • A Good Liar and the other best links of the week

    “Here I am lying again on some level, which I promised I wouldn’t do—and I’m lying in some ways to the person I love most.” – Stephen Glass in Bill Adair’s incredible essay on who the disgraced journalist became in the two decades since being outed as a fabulist. It’s worth giving up your email…

  • All filled up on Black misery

    “That’s all I have left. Just let me hide” – Joann Garrett, Walk on By By all accounts, 12 Years A Slave is a masterful film expertly acted and directed. It’s powerful and moving and meaningful. It’s everything an Important Film should be. I probably won’t see it. At least not in the theater. I…