Author: Pope Brock

Poetry in Motion

A new book about the ad business, The Adman’s Dilemma, brings to light a rare attempt to monetize...

I’m fresh from seeing a very strange movie called Titanic. Not the one with Kate Winslet and the...

Here’s some outstanding creative writing advice from British novelist Muriel Spark. It’s the opening of her novel Finishing...

Now and then I come across a song on Youtube I’d love to play on my radio show,...

I got a modest check in the mail this week connected to my book Charlatan: America’s Most Dangerous...

I was in Rome not long ago and went to visit the graveyard where Keats and Shelley are...

“Actors’ Equity Association…announced this week that it would cease using the title ‘Gypsy Robe’ to describe one of its most...

Above, Jean Miro. You know the song “All in the Game”? (“Many a tear has to fall/But it’s...

Yesterday I got in touch with Alicia Mayer, the grandniece of Louis B. Mayer, in connection with some...

World History for 11 points! In 1521, after the excommunication of this religious reformer, a Holy Roman Emperor...

Famous Last Words: “Mrs. Tope’s care has spread a very neat, clean breakfast ready for her lodger. Before...

I learned yesterday that Carl Bernstein, the legendary Watergate reporter, won a Howdy Doody lookalike contest when he...