Bob Dylan’s Chronicles, Volume One a review by Jim Kunstler I had a dream about meeting Bob Dylan about six months before the only time I actually met him. It was toward the end of my stint working for a daily newspaper in Albany, New York, in 1974. In the dream, I met Bob on more »
Movie: Syriana
The Syriana Syndrome By Jim Kunstler (This ran as an op-ed piece in the Albany Times-Union) Anyone who sees Syriana, the new George Clooney movie about political hugger-mugger in a Middle East oil kingdom, will not come away with an enhanced understanding of the global oil predicament. They’ll see a dark, brooding, and impressively restrained story more »
Tom Wolf’s Charlotte Simmons
I am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe Reviewed by Jim Kunstler Some years ago, ubermaster journalist Tom Wolfe published an essay in Harper’s Magazine, Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast, in which he upbraided American novel-writers for their narcissistic navel-gazing and miniaturism and challenged them to grapple with the fascinating spectacle of the contemporary scene on the more »