after cancer
-& after my finger bitten off by a dog-
I learned something about #Courage:
it comes after The Horror

#RelentlessDecency

🍁 #CANpoli 🍁 #CDNpoli 🍁
#CanadaSky

@todmaffin.com
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
#DavidMarchese
#TheInterview 📰 #NYT
#HopeInTheDark 📚
#TheBeginningComesAfterTheEnd 📚

George Saunders Says Ditching These Three Delusions Can Save You

"... it’s becoming clear that writing and reading is a way of simply underscoring that human connection is important, that you can know my mind and I can know yours, which is a vastly consoling idea, and we need it." - #GeorgeSaunders
#davidmarchese
#TheInterview
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/m...

What Happened to Cameron Crowe? He Has Answers.

"... life is the best writer, and sometimes you have to let life show you a little bit of what that is." #CameronCrowe

#davidmarchese
#TheInterview #TheUncool #memoir
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/m...

Ocean Vuong Was Ready to Kill. Then a Moment of Grace Changed His Life.

Another NYT Mag piece worth sharing. Editors changed the headline online; ignore it.
It’s another good #davidmarchese #interview. #oceanvuong #americanlife www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/m...

'The Interview': Ocean Vuong Was Ready to Kill. Then a Moment of Grace Changed His Life. Podcast Episode · The Daily · 2025-05-03 · 50m

Very moving interview with Ocean Vuong. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t... #oceanvuong #thedaily #podcast #davidmarchese

Nate Bargatze Doesn’t Mind if You Think He’s an Idiot The stand-up comic discusses having a magician for a father, the challenge of mainstream comedy and his aspirations to build the next Disneyland.

"I ride the line: You don’t know what’s a bit, what’s not a bit. No one can really tell what’s going on, and then, depending on who I’m talking to, I can decide if it was dumb or not." - #NateBargatze
#DavidMarchese
#TheInterview
#ComedySky #BookSky
#BigDumbEyes
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/m...

Opportunity to peer into the brain of #billmurray, with this very funny side anecdote by #davidmarchese
go.cooler.fm/e/2185784868...

‘The Interview’: Bill Murray Says He’s Not the Man He Used to Be The actor talks about his new film “The Friend,” his jerky past and what he doesn’t get about himself.

"The way I was educated as an actor was, you can’t possibly recreate that moment that just happened a minute ago. Why try? I want something brand-new. This is the one that counts, because this is the one we’re in." - #BillMurray
#davidmarchese
#TheInterview
#FilmSky
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/m...

I don’t know what was most painful to witness in this week’s episode of #TheInterview podcast from @nytimes.com—David Marchese’s insecurity, Denzel Washington’s arrogant style, or the meta-interview that this all lead up to. #DavidMarchese #DenzelWashington #NYTimes

Hitting The Links: 11/17/24 We've got some strange resonances & travel dominoes, lots of links, a bourbon tasting, a dog who can flex, & more!

The Sunday links-newsletter is out! I encounter weird connections & resonances, get you links by/re @brettmartin.bsky.social, @christopherbrown.bsky.social, #MichaelDirda, #StevenHeller, #DavidMarchese, offer up a sexysexy greyhound, & more, so GO READ: buttondown.com/vmspod/archi...

Hitting The Links: 3/31/24 Rush “It is the only effective use of the second person voice in years,” Salman Rushdie told me. He was talking about a novel, but I missed the title of it,...

New linky-email! This one's got a weird dream, my mad rush, some great shoes, a mitzvah, links by/re @brettmartin.bsky.social, #MarkUlriksen, #Mutts, #CaryGrant, @edyong209.bsky.social, @christopherbrown.bsky.social, #DavidMarchese, & a LOT more, so GO READ! buttondown.email/vmspod/archi...