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Great Launch for Haunting Melissa

May 19, 2013 Culture

  Wow, I couldn’t be happier with the way Neal Edelstein and the Haunting Melissa team introduced this new ghost story — and this new form of entertainment —to the world. Lots of good press about it like here and here, creepy trailers here and here, even an encouraging tweet from Avril Lavigne! The app [...]

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“Haunting Melissa” Has Arrived

May 16, 2013 Culture

If you own an iPhone or iPad, you can now download the first ever app movie, “Haunting Melissa,” a ghost story with a script by yours truly. My buddy Neal Edelstein came up with this truly new way of delivering entertainment. The app download is free and incredibly cool — and all downloads are helpful [...]

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“Haunting Melissa” Coming Soon

May 6, 2013 Culture

I’m really excited about this. My buddy Neal Edelstein — now the overlord of his own company Hooked Digital Media — has created this brilliant new app to, in his words, “fill a void in today’s entertainment landscape by creating original filmed stories for viewing directly on mobile and tablet devices.” It’s cutting edge stuff [...]

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Interview at Faulkner University

April 29, 2013 Culture

Here’s an hour-long interview I did with Professor Robert Woods of Great Books Honors College of Faulkner University. We discuss my novels Crazy Dangerous, If We Survive and Identity Man, talk writing in general with a little politics thrown in. Again, the link is here.

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Me on Mamet – Again.

April 21, 2013 Culture

I’ve written about the playwright and screenwriter David Mamet a number of times now, first in the Los Angeles Times, then in the Wall Street Journal. I don’t intend to make a career of it, but I do have one more piece about him on the Front Page website – a study of how the [...]

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Have a Wonderful Passover and Easter

March 24, 2013 Culture

I will be traveling part of this week and through Easter. I hope you have wonderful holidays. For those looking for something to read, I’m reprinting part of my Christmas essay below, “Our Culture and Christ.” All art — all storytelling, picture-making, music — is an attempt to record and communicate the experience of being [...]

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Me on The Exceptional Conservative Show

March 10, 2013 Culture

I did a really enjoyable, long-form interview with Ken McClenton this week on The Exceptional Conservative Show.  It’s about an hour long. You can hear it here at the link.

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Andrew Breitbart, One Year Later

March 3, 2013 Culture

It’s been a year since the death of my friend Andrew Breitbart. I wrote this reflection for the Big sites that are a major part of his legacy: For a few weeks after Andrew Breitbart’s death, I allowed my personal sorrow to color my worldview.  All around me, I heard brave voices saying that Andrew’s [...]

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My Take on the Oscars

January 13, 2013 Culture

I can’t help making fun of Oscar nominations. It’s not that I don’t think the films are good — very often they are. It’s just that they all have one political point of view, which reinforces the idea that our creative class has become more lockstep conformist than, say, any six guys you could find [...]

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Our Culture and Christ: A Klavan on The Culture Christmas Blog

December 23, 2012 Culture

All art — all storytelling, picture-making, music — is an attempt to record and communicate the experience of being human. There are no words for this experience. Only metaphor and imagery and music will do. All peoples leave these traces of themselves. It’s their way of saying not just “We were here,” but “We were [...]

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