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Howard Chaykin

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“I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.”                                                                                                                 ...

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UNSAFE AT ANY SPEED. Four years ago, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Woodstock Art, Music, and overflowing portable toilet festival,...

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…BUT FAIR I’ve long lost count of the number of times I’ve seen A CHORUS LINE, at one time the longest running show on...

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…And over familiarity. I am often taken to task by enthusiasts for my dismissive, ruthless and callous dismissal of much, if not most, of...

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… ESTIMATION OF THE AUDIENCE, OF COURSE. I have to assume that most of you who read these screeds are at least marginally aware...

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(With no apologies whatsoever to that fucking Norman Podhoretz.) I’ve told the story frequently, if not incessantly, of how I was introduced to comic...

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I’ve been traveling again this past year, airborne every few weeks or so, and the evidence would indicate that the number of apparently insecure...

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…THE VIRTUE OF AGONY. The death of the actor William Hurt, besides the loss of such an extraordinarily sly and nuanced talent, and separate,...

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…AND TOXIC AVENGERS I was first inoculated by what became a lifelong obsession, and not incidentally a lifelong career, by comic books, in the...

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