Wait: There’s ANOTHER Maine Writer?

November 18, 2019: It turns out that, incredibly, there are several. Yesterday the Portland Press Herald ran my review of …

Fa. Fa. Fa. Fa. Fashionopolis.

September 6, 2019: What’s the rush, Dave? I ask because Dana Thomas has a swell new book out, Fashionopolis: The …

August 21, 2019: Well, I’m sorry, but this requires some setting up: Twenty years ago, I tried and failed to …

July 7, 2019: I had nice things to say about Jackie Susann* in 2016; this year I have nice things …

June 9, 2019: I should probably tell you that I don’t have a spiritual bone in my body, but I …

May 13, 2019: As you may have guessed, I don’t really like today. We all knew it was coming, but …

May 6, 2019: You know how stupid people believe that an actress’s rendition of sexual arousal is what women’s arousal …

April 23, 2019: Patrick McGuinness’s London-set thriller Throw Me to the Wolves has just been published, and I had the …

February 12, 2019: Today marks the deathiversary of Betty Garrett—no, not Betty Grable: Betty Garrett, who died eight years ago …

January 27, 2019: Did you like Barry Levinson’s Diner? Want even more midcentury male bonding and bickering over French fries? …