A Portrait of the Artist: Eric Fischl Speaks with Bill Collage
EXT. SAG TOWN COFFEE – SAG HARBOR, NY – MORNING World-renown painter ERIC FISCHL sits at a cafe table with screenwriter BILL COLLAGE to discuss […] The post A Portrait of the Artist: Eric Fischl Speaks...
View ArticleJames Salter Returns to the Novel After More Than Three Decades
When bookstores host author readings, the actual reading is usually followed by a question and answer period. Some of the most often asked questions, by admirers of the author or by aspiring writers...
View ArticleA Story of Venice: A Portrait of an Ancient City
Sag Harbor Renaissance man Joe Pintauro could have written a play about the Venice he describes as “the only city in the world coupled to the sea by a conjugal promise." The post A Story of Venice: A...
View ArticleLooking for Real Connections in the Digital Age
When John Messsinger was offered an artist-in-residency at the Watermill Center this past winter, he thought he’d probably spend his time creating site specific photos, capturing the landscape of Water...
View ArticleMoments Captured: Photographer Francine Fleischer on Portraiture
Photographer Francine Fleischer cut her teeth by assisting in the studios of Annie Liebovitz and Michel Comte. Her portrait, interior and travel work have appeared in publications such as Vanity Fair,...
View ArticleSELFIE By Bill Collage
A nice-sized oil painting of George Washington hangs directly across the room from my writing desk. Darren Aronofsky gave it to me as a gift upon the completion of the first draft of the script for The...
View ArticleFeiffer’s Darker Half
Jules Feiffer lets his stories steer their own course. Years ago he started writing a picture book for his youngest daughter, Julie. Quickly he understood the language wasn’t allowing it to be a...
View ArticleBiography: The End of Liberalism with Neal Gabler
One of the challenges of writing a biography of a very public man like Sen. Ted Kennedy is that the public already has a pretty vivid perception of him. How do you combat that and how much of a...
View ArticleSelected Shorts Comes to Southampton Campus as the Writers Conference Returns
“Selected Shorts,” the popular Public Radio International literary radio series, will visit the Graduate Arts campus of Stony Brook Southampton on Saturday, July 18, at […] The post Selected Shorts...
View ArticleSelected Shorts Comes to the Southampton Writers Conference
Each year, in the heart of the Southampton Writers Conference, the gates are thrown open and the public is invited to join the conference attendees for a special evening to celebrate the launch of the...
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