Articles by Patrick Brown
April 18, 2012
Getting the Good Stuff: Mark Haskell Smith’s Heart of Dankness 6
Take it from a guy who hates reggae: I highly recommend picking up Heart of Dankness, whether you have a doctor’s recommendation or not.
February 24, 2012
Source Material: Breaking Down the Oscar for Adapted Screenplay 14
If the publishing industry really does collapse, as some predict it will, it won’t be the big houses or the independent bookstores that will be most affected, it will be Hollywood. This year’s crop of Oscar contenders begs the question “Can there be a cinema without books?”
December 17, 2011
A Year in Reading: Patrick Brown 2
Here was the reading experience I was looking for! I couldn’t wait to get back to it. I read it over breakfast, over lunch. I voluntarily took the bus to work, just so I’d have extra time to read. It was the book that reminded me what a pleasure a great book can be.
September 30, 2011
The Joys and Compromises of Bennett Miller’s Moneyball 2
Take whatever it is that’s important to you – knitting, perhaps, or mountain biking – and then imagine waiting for a feature film about it. Would you be excited or nervous? Or would you simply be dreading how Hollywood would manage to fuck up your passion?
July 28, 2011
Staff Pick: Baseball Playbook 1
“You might have to coach Little League in a few years,” my father told me, handing me a strange, plain book. My son was a week old. It would be at least two years before he would learn to throw a cut fastball (and probably another year or two before he had any real command of the pitch).
January 12, 2011
Staff Pick: FreeDarko Presents The Undisputed Guide to Pro Basketball History 6
To find truth — and in so doing, beauty — in the game is the height of sportswriting, a genre usually mired somewhere between tawdry gossip and vitriolic hyperbole.