In just one month, my debut novel PSALMS FOR THE END OF THE WORLD hits shelves, the culmination of four years of dedicated work and...

For the past several years, I've had the urge to return to my journalism roots. Primarily writing essays interested in pop-culture, and...

While ROCKY is clearly a sports film, it’s a fairly disinterested one when it comes to the actual sport of it – boxing. The triumph of...

There are so many aspects of Nora Ephron’s WHEN HARRY MET SALLY script that deserve study by screenwriters and storytellers in general,...

THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER hits theaters today, so I thought I’d take this opportunity to explain why I think the character’s last onscreen...

A fellow storyteller suggested to me that “THE BOYS” desensitizes viewers to violence, making it dangerous to American culture. I...

Joan Didion’s THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING shook me. I’ve struggled with persistent grief for several years after a series of deaths in...

Books have provided me a route to knowledge and a constant escape, and it boggles my mind that my debut novel PSALMS FOR THE END OF THE...

Intergenerational trauma – what happens when trauma is passed down through generations, so descendants continue to suffer from events...

I rewatched GHOST recently, a film that somehow balances mournful drama and screwball comedy as a train of character and plot reversals...

By the time I got the chance to see TOP GUN: MAVERICK this past week, I’d heard from every direction that it was a great film with a...

David Bowie’s eighth studio album DIAMOND DOGS (1974) rarely becomes a subject of conversation amongst the Bowie fanatics I know, even...

My debut novel PSALMS FOR THE END OF THE WORLD will be released on the 1st of September (31st August if you're in Australia or New...

I haven't had a chance to see TOP GUN: MAVERICK yet (Tuesday, I think). But inspired by my excitement for it, I want to share some...

Welcome to my blog, where I will be discussing my work as an author, screenwriter, and journalist, but also pop-culture in general and,...