Le Noir Auteur Reads: These Heroic, Happy Dead by Luke Mogelson

There’s been a kind of interesting trend in the short story world in these past few years to center narratives around veterans and soldiers who fought in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. These Heroic, Happy Dead counts itself in that number. It’s comparable to Redeployment, the Phil Klay novel that I loved, but writer Luke Mogelson takes a

First Half of the Year Movie Awards

I cannot believe that the year is half over. Time has flown by so damn quickly. Taking stock of the landscape of movies and it has been a bit of an uneven year. Granted I haven’t seen some of the big players, but were it not for LA Film Festival this year would seem super