Magic for Beginners

The only thing more perversely satisfying than loving a TV show nobody else seems to appreciate is learning that show actually has a passionate, outsized following, and the suits who canceled it must now face the fact that they were WRONG WRONG WRONG. Some of the shows below were killed long before their time; others found a […]

The long dreamed-of return of Twin Peaks is happening, and we haven’t stopped eating celebratory pie and coffee since David Lynch gave word. While we wait for the third season to arrive with nothing but our sentient log friends to keep us company, we’ll be losing ourselves in books that capture the spirit of Lynch’s singular […]

Novelists seem to get all the hype. The short story was once considered just as important as the novel—think Hemingway or Chekhov—but at some point, there just didn’t seem to be a market for short fiction any more. But recently, that’s begun to change. New technology, shorter attention spans, and a wave of films adapted from […]