For the past three years, I've been writing and reporting a book about Nicolas Cage's early career and rise to fame. I'm very excited to announce that my new book will be published by Oxford University Press on October 31. You can preorder it now:

May have impulse-purchased some used DVDs while reporting this story

RT @whatimafter_: not vinyl-style but thats a good thing.

Hello. Over at @Inc, I profiled the founders of Brooklyn's new video store, two movie-loving millennials who believe that DVDs and Blu-rays are headed for a vinyl-style resurgence and are betting big with a brick-and-mortar store in Williamsburg.

RT @jtramsay: This is Secret Samadhi erasure.

RT @daisandconfused: he just gets me.

Incredible! Using the power of AI, we can now imagine what an R.E.M. reunion album would sound like

RT @mertonesque: JAZZ ALBUM TITLES.50s: Smokin' Sounds .60s: It's Happening!!!!!.70s: A Sensuous Woman Receives Divine Light.80s: Adventure….

Every day reporters ask "Eric Adams, are you running for reelection?" and he says something like "NYC, greatest city in the world! Unless the moon counts as a city, but I've only been there once, and that was in 1991, when I received a holy vision from an ostrich!".

Is there a vaccine beloved comedians can take when they're young so they don't turn into reactionary cranks.

RT @PeterBeinart: According to pre-election polls, Mamdani ran 2nd among Jewish voters. I bet that among young Jews, he'll be shown to have….

A millennial male mayor of New York? He's supposed to be standing up to the real estate lobby, not out here having opinions about Real Estate deep cuts.

Not to belabor the point, but technically speaking, Arthur Russell (d. 1992) has lived in New York City more recently than Andrew Cuomo.

Anyway, here's an essay I wrote for @dirtyverse about "nepo parents"

RT @tonykchoi: Immigrant parents do not have time to spare for such trivialities like “mayoral campaign”.

RT @RossWBermanIV: Under the equal time rule, they now have to host an Andrew Cuomo-hosted screening of Cop Land.

Funniest possible time for Zohran's mom to do a screening Q&A

RT @VivianKesandre: Did not remember that this was what Eric Adams said immediately after Mahmoud Khalil was arrested .

RT @drewmillard: i have written a pitchfork review. the review is of the new reissue of metallica’s literally seminal 1996 album ‘load.’ ma….

Love this story about how Spielberg knew Jaws would be a hit when he saw an audience member rush to the bathroom to throw up, then promptly return to his seat

For @HISTORY, I interviewed a few Spielberg biographers and wrote about how Jaws ushered in the summer blockbuster era and whetted Hollywood's shark-like appetite for gigantic profits and endless merchandising: .