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The Revolutionary Genius of Cecil Taylor |

One warm summer evening in the mid-nineteen-eighties, the pianist Cecil Taylor was scheduled to give a solo performance at a concert hall on the Lower East Side, all tickets sold at the door. Expecting a clamoring crowd, I got there…

When Steven Bochco Calls |

“I’m going to send you a plane ticket. I want you to come out to Hollywood, and we’ll see if you can write.” With those words, Steven Bochco changed my life. Steven had been changing lives for years. He had…

Do Capybaras Dream of Google Docs? |

This is a piece that wrote and unwrote itself in Google Docs. It wrote itself as a reported article, in which I spoke to friends and colleagues about their mixed experiences with the free word-processing program. In some tidy corner…