J.C. Scharl

Author Archive

  • November 14, 2024
    Ted Gioia, in his superb Substack “The Honest Broker,” recently verified one of the most disturbing trends in technology today: the way the presence of...
  • July 18, 2024
    These days, the world of contemporary American poetry is less one world than many. Never has so much poetry been published; rarely have there been more “camps” or...
  • July 2, 2024
    No doubt it is inconvenient for the writer, but one of the best things that can happen for readers is when a great writer—a truly great writer—is required by...
  • May 30, 2024
    A piece of art, completed, represents a long series of choices, from the first choice that artist made to pay attention to the tugging on the edge of his mind to the final daub of...
  • April 3, 2024
    Ambiguity is, in a neat mental onomatopoeia, a difficult word to define. But to begin to understand a piece of art like the film Freud’s Last Session, define it we...