Michael Ventura
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Letters at 3AM: The Bad and the Beautiful
Film noir cuts through the cant of America’s idealism
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Letters at 3AM: Miss Beaufort
‘If you’re to be a writer, you must write every day,’ said Miss Beaufort
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Letters at 3AM: Stirling at Road’s End
Stirling Silliphant had a marvelous gift for writing, but he sold it out
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Letters at 3AM: Obama, Nukes, and Us
President Barack Obama fudges the truth of his nuclear policies
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Letters at 3AM: Some Kind of a Man
After a certain age, there’s no avoiding how death is a permanent part of life
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Letters at 3AM: A Prayer at the End of My Rope
The crucial element of prayer is “no alibis”
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Letters at 3AM: A Sweetness of Brick
Old New York is gone; only the replicas remain
