The Saturnine Age and the Modern Genius
When a modern person thinks of artistic genius, they imagine an individual. Some
have quantified genius by standardized exams – for example, the I.Q. test – but
most know a genius by his work.
Michael Toscano
Michael Toscano is a film school dropout who writes from Brooklyn. He is balding rapidly.
The Myth of Fairy Inferiority
If someone wrote a constitution outlining the powers allotted the contemporary
storyteller, one of its central clauses might read like this: “So-called
‘myths,’ an antiquated genre cobbled together from perpetuated falsity, if
written