Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up. So goes the central theme – and cautionary advice – of Surviving Progress, a remarkable documentary directed by Mathieu Roy and Harold Crooks, and executive-produced by Martin Scorsese. The angle, which Progress reinforces … Read More … Read More
Author Archives: Bob Hill
Moving On: The Things We Think (& Do Not Say)
By Bob Hill Twenty years ago in the side bedroom of a second-story shack on the 100 block of East Maple, two drunk kids set to wrestling at each other in the dark – he in a second-hand pair of Umbros, … Read More
Michael Chabon on the Midnight Disease
“The midnight disease is a kind of emotional insomnia; at every conscious moment its victim – even if he or she writes at dawn, or in the middle of the afternoon – feels like a person lying in a sweltering … Read More
Film Capsule: All In: The Poker Movie
From French aristocrats to World War II vets; from Riverboat Dandies to Texas Rounders. From The Mayfair Club to the New York school; from the living rooms to Las Vegas. From the sharks to the suckers; from the mavericks to … Read More
Moving On: 10 Pounds’ Worth of Potatoes (Inside a 5-Lb Sack)
By Bob Hill A week after I left home, my parents put the word out they had taken the spare house key from its usual spot. They had fastened all the windows. They had secured all points of entry. It was … Read More
Deb Olin Unferth on Loneliness
“You can be a lot of things and be lonely. You can do exciting things and be lonely. You can fall in love and be lonely. You can be content and be lonely. Once you’ve felt that kind of deep … Read More
Moving On: I’m 18 (& I Don’t Know What I Want)
By Bob Hill I showed up drunk for my first day of college. I showed up barely coherent, waving like a buoy, reeking like a bad sock that had been bathed in turpentine. After 18 years spent sweating it out in Delaware … Read More