Happy that Kris Kristofferson made possible Johnny Cash's "Sunday Morning Coming Down," Al Green's "For the Good Times," and Janis Joplin's "Me and Bobby McGee." More than nearly anyone I know has made possible.

RIP Fredric Jameson. No book has been more central to my life than The Political Unconscious. I reread it like you do a favorite novel.

RIP Gena Rowlands, the realest of them all

I reviewed the essay collection Fredric Jameson and Film Theory for Critical Inquiry: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/jeff_menne_r...