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In an advertising agency's office high above the city, two creatives struggle with pills and broken pencils. They’re trying to sell a new drug to make people feel immortal. The walls are covered with failed ideas and words they must not use. “Vitaren” is a business short
It’s July 1958 and Ennio Flaiano runs into an old film extra he’s known for years. Given Rome’s cinematic historico-biblico-mythological re-birth, this film extra has been shuttling from one film to another without even changing his makeup. He is a wise man out of Thebes, an archon
A lost soul wanders through a supernatural salt mine in Austria, surrounded by the greatest artworks of Europe. Adolf Hitler has just died by his own hand in a Berlin bunker but his consciousness lingers here, desperately searching for his salvation. The smell of gasoline follows him through the damp
It’s 1981 and David Milch is an English literature professor at Yale University. He is known for his cerebral and unorthodox approach to writing, for the profanity of his dialogue and for the precision of his plots. His teaching style is also unorthodox. In one class he is lying
A man walks into a bar, knowing he’s stepping into danger. The front door locks behind him. He’s trapped, outnumbered, but not outmatched. The air hisses with tension as he pushes through the crowd. “Chapter Thirty-Seven” is a brutal short story about the legitimacy of violence. What drives