As Time Goes By
"I'm not quitting. I'm turning," says Michael Ventura in his final column
Letters at 3AM
1-30 of 490 entries
Michael Ventura, Nov. 13, 2014
The World
That Calls Itself "the World"
We're capable of so much – and look what we've settled for
Michael Ventura, Oct. 30, 2014
The Future Dot-Dot-Dot
Ellipses express exactly my sense of the future
Michael Ventura, Oct. 16, 2014
A Long Goodbye
In the first of four parting columns, Michael Ventura announces his decision to end his biweekly column
Michael Ventura, Oct. 2, 2014
Joe Ely's Reverb: An Odyssey
The road goes on forever, and there's never a destination
Michael Ventura, Sept. 18, 2014
Karen Holden's This Music
This Music, Karen Holden's new poetry collection, expresses the connection between the self and the world
Michael Ventura, Sept. 4, 2014
Connectivity/Vulnerability: Part 2
The boundaries of everything are wavering and disappearing
Michael Ventura, Aug. 21, 2014
Vulnerability/Connectivity, Part 1
As a species, we have a desire to connect electronically, but not ideologically
Michael Ventura, Aug. 7, 2014
So Big Deal, Hemingway
Will Huck Finn be a valuable and immortal American archetype in the future?
Michael Ventura, July 24, 2014
That Word 'Oligarchy'
Oligarchy is upon us, claw and beak, and has been for some time
Michael Ventura, July 10, 2014
Oligarchy Blues
Without fair elections and a viable legislative process at federal and state levels, the republic no longer exists
Michael Ventura, June 26, 2014
Snyder 'R' Us
Despite the illusion of autonomy, we have been colonized by the Oligarchy
Michael Ventura, June 12, 2014
Hitting the Street
Michael Ventura remembers how poverty bred contempt toward those he loved the most
Michael Ventura, May 29, 2014
The Nameless Moon, Etc.
Ventura unpacks his folders full of sentences without homes, and other remnants excised from this and that
Michael Ventura, May 15, 2014
Musicians of Behavior
Actors are musicians of behavior
Michael Ventura, May 1, 2014
The Sadness That Stays
When the world inside you is no longer the world around you, that's called aging
Michael Ventura, April 17, 2014
To Sit on a Park Bench
The park bench is a fine and honorable place to end up
Michael Ventura, April 3, 2014
Letters at 3AM – Manifesto: A Radical Aesthetics
Get stuff out there; work with cause: That's the genesis of LettersAt3amPress
Michael Ventura, March 20, 2014
BigBoy's 'Slap Noir'
James BigBoy Medlin's 'Slap Noir' changed my life in a most concrete fashion
Michael Ventura, March 6, 2014
How to Write a Book
If you think you have a book in you, it's important to find out if you really do
Michael Ventura, Feb. 20, 2014
Today, 100 Years Ago
On Feb. 7, 1914, the world first beheld Charlie Chaplin on the screen in his iconic getup
Michael Ventura, Feb. 6, 2014
February 1914
Charlie Chaplin's iconic Tramp was really born in 'Kid Auto Races at Venice,' not 'Mabel's Strange Predicament,' as commonly thought
Michael Ventura, Jan. 23, 2014
3% Neanderthal
Our DNA has seen it all before – and survived
Michael Ventura, Jan. 9, 2014
The Capacity to Take It
Perseverance is the spine of the human condition
Michael Ventura, Dec. 27, 2013
If We Make It Through December
Everywhere I looked for a merry Christmas, I found contradictions too disturbing to ignore and paradoxes too entrenched to resolve
Michael Ventura, Dec. 12, 2013
Wake of the Red Witch
Everything that begins also ends
Michael Ventura, Nov. 27, 2013
JFK and That Hard Rain
When boomers and their offspring die out, Kennedy's assassination will have the approximate historical echo of William McKinley's
Michael Ventura, Nov. 21, 2013
In Greta Garbo's Bungalow
As beautiful as Greta Garbo was, she was something more
Michael Ventura, Oct. 31, 2013
Articles of Faith
"That all things are possible is God"
Michael Ventura, Oct. 17, 2013
He Took the Cat to Texas: Part 2
Suicide was the last lens through which Mayer Vishner gazed upon life
