“The Glory Of The Unknown Space Monkeys and The Manner Of Their Awful Deaths” was a piece I created along the banks of the Tar River in 2004. An examination on humanity and success, I cobbled the scant source material from libraries and what little was on the Internet at the time.

When war scattered Albania’s best and brightest in the ’90s, New York inherited more than resilience — it gained a quiet culinary renaissance. Those refugees, fluent in both hardship and hospitality, slipped seamlessly into the kitchens of Little Italy, preserving the flavors that the old guard had long since carried off to Long Island.

Two Fathers, One Nation: The Dual Masculinity of Anderson’s Vision. My take on Paul Thomas Anderson's heady action thriller.