One Hundred Years of Solitude didn’t just crystalize who García Márquez was; it crystalized who I was.
Steve Erickson
Steve Erickson has contributed to The New York Times, Esquire, Rolling Stone and Los Angeles. He teaches at CalArts, and his new novel is These Dreams of You (Europa Editions).
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After the Midterms: Impeachment?
The rhetoric surrounding the president has always been extreme, but how far could it go this year?
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As Good As It Gets for Oscar
This year was the prototype of what’s probably the best that can be expected of the Academy Awards.
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Conversations with My Mother
Crossing the political divide within the family unit.
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Reports of Obama’s Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Don’t leave his presidency for dead just yet.
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New Year, Same Intellectual Dishonesty
2014 is shaping up to be just like every year before it, filled with people in politics and media unwilling or unable to recognize nuance.
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Obama’s Lie
The president’s untruths about the Affordable Care Act will continue to haunt him.
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The Coen Brothers’ Goodbye Song
Inside Llewyn Davis deepens the duo’s turn from satire to elegy
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America in Words and in the Crosshairs
This week’s anniversaries of the Gettysburg Address and JFK’s death are reminders of the true audacity of our democracy.
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Lou Reed’s Incorrigible Genius
The legendary singer-songwriter of the Velvet Underground died Sunday.