“But now, with the rise of new money, it’s like there’s this moment in India, when new money was eclipsing old money. And that’s the moment that I basically find really interesting because I happen to be right there observing, and just talking to people and listening and picking up stories.” You might have missed […]
“I’m really driven by poetry. I’m really driven by language. But also, I’m driven by a desire to connect with the people. So I could have been a teacher. I could have been a politician. I could have been anyone that communicates with people verbally because I liked that. I wound up a performer, but […]
Season One of HBO’s True Detective was a huge hit and an incredible pop culture moment. Feeding off the remarkable (and completely unpredicted) phenomenon of career revival known as the “McConaissance,” the series took several improbable ingredients—including lead actors Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, the direction of Cary Fukunaga, and the trippy, overwrought dialogue of […]
Thanksgiving, like all holidays, means different things to different people. An immense amount of food and drink? Probably. Awkward conversations with people you don’t see often? Almost certainly. Vast stretches of empty time spent in places with sketchy or nonexistent WiFi, like airports, grandma’s house, and possibly your entire hometown? Sadly, the Magic 8 Ball […]