Publications
SHORT STORIES:
Amuse Bouche
Gargoyle
Issue 56, Spring 2010
Red
Barrelhouse (online)
October 17, 2008.
Listed as Notable in 2009 Best American Nonrequired Reading.
How’s My Driving?
Pindeldyboz (online)
April 14, 2008.
Graffiti
Fourteen Hills
Vol. 14, No. 1, 2008, pp. 9-18.
Kin
American Literary Review
Vol. XVIII, No. 2, Fall 2007, pp. 47-60.
Accident
The MacGuffin
Vol. XXIII, No. 3, Spring/Summer 2007, pp. 112-118.
Found Objects A-Z
Beloit Fiction Journal
Vol. 20, Spring 2007, pp. 59-75.
Old People Sitting in Their Cars
Fugue
No. 32, Winter-Spring 2007, pp. 87-92.
Confession
Potomac Review
Issue 41, Fall 2006, pp. 137-148.
ENTERTAINMENT REVIEWS AND BLOG POSTS (at Pop Matters):
A Gifted Man Asks What Does It Mean to Live a Good Life, September 23, 2011
Hollywood Continues to Resurrect the Familiar with Charlie’s Angels, September 22, 2011
2 Broke Girls Cribs from Much Better Earlier Sitcoms, September 19, 2011
Up All Night Shows What Raising Kids Is Really Like, September 14, 2011
Here Comes Fall TV: 2011 Edition, August 19, 2011
The Change-Up: Becoming Better People, August 5, 2011
Crazy. Stupid. Love. Is Surprisingly Good, July 29, 2011
Entourage Season Eight, July 22, 2011
Same Name Series Premiere, July 22, 2011
Curb Your Enthusiasm Season Eight, July 8, 2011
Franklin & Bash Series Premiere, June 1, 2011
Fast Five Embraces B Movie Cliches, April 29, 2011
Paul: Vaguely Greenish, March 18, 2011
Battle Los Angeles Is More First Person Shooter Game Than Movie, March 11, 2011
Take Me Home Tonight Is Pure ’80s Retread, March 4, 2011
With Hall Pass, the Farrelly Brothers Return to Their Prototype, February 25, 2011
Mad Love series premiere, February 14, 2011
Ron Howard’s Comedy The Dilemma Is Missing the Comedy, January 14, 2010
Episodes series premiere, January 9, 2011
Bob’s Burgers series premiere, January 9, 2011
Little Fockers: Universal Mistrust, December 24, 2010
RED: AARP Action Heroes, October 15, 2010
The Event Will Be Unrequited, October 8, 2010
No Ordinary Family series premiere, September 28, 2010
Better With You series premiere, September 24, 2010
Chase: No Doubts, September 20, 2010
Easy A: Sly Enough, September 17, 2010
The Switch: Who’s Your Daddy, August 20, 2010
Naked Hearts: Mass Hysteria, August 20, 2010
Rubicon: What to Think, August 1, 2010
Covert Affairs Series Premiere, July 13, 2010
Despicable Me, July 9, 2010
Paper Tongues: Paper Tongues, July 1, 2010
‘Love Ranch’: Passionless Exercise, June 30, 2010
Griffin House: The Learner, June 24, 2010
‘Memphis Beat’: Sense of Place, June 22, 2010
‘Solitary Man’: Irregularities, June 8, 2010
‘Neighbors from Hell’: Stitched Together, June 7, 2010
Judd Apatow Returns with the Bromance ‘Get Him to the Greek, June 4, 2010
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Glee Club, May 18, 2010
It’s High Time to Party Down, May 18, 2010
United States of Tara and Its Equally Dysfunctional Cable Neighbors, April 29, 2010
Development Season: Five Pilots That Sound Interesting (But I May Never Get to See), April 15, 2010
Alternate Realities on Fringe, Lost and FlashForward, April 8, 2010
The Braces Come Off: The End of Ugly Betty, March 22, 2010
The Marriage Ref: NBC’s Next 10 p.m. Revolution?, March 4 2010
24: Wish Fulfillment for Policy Wonks, February 22, 2010
Tonight on the Lifetime Very Special Movie: American Idol, Feb. 9, 2010
All in the Modern Family, February 5, 2010
CliffsNotes: Lost, January 28, 2010
American Idol: Coming Out of the Closet with Ellen DeGeneres, Jan. 11, 2010
Get Your DVRs Ready: Five Shows Returning in 2010, Dec. 30, 2009
Memo to Scrubs: Spin Off Ted and Gooch, Dec. 16, 2009
Is Glee a Little Bit Racist?, Dec. 9, 2009
Holding Out for Heroes, Dec. 2, 2009
Larry David Invents the Reunion Show Finale Do-Over Mash-Up, Nov. 23, 2009
FOREIGN POLICY BLOG POSTS (at Across The Aisle):
Cuba
- Is Cuba Worth It?, April 13, 2009
- Cuba Libre III: WAITING FOR GO … RBACHEV, September 1, 2008
- Cuba Libre: What If Castro Didn’t Matter?, August 29, 2008
U.S. in the World
- Moral Hazard and the Olive Branch, March 16, 2009
- Renewing the U.S.-UN Relationship, November 20, 2008
Bipartisanship
- The Idiot’s Guide to Bipartisanship for Dummies, February 13, 2009
Nonproliferation
- Advice for the WMD Coordinator, February 2, 2009
- Memo to the UN: A Little Disarmament Diplomacy, Please, November 10, 2008
Syria
- Want Middle East peace? Next stop: Damascus, January 5, 2009
Iran
- Should We Engage Iran Out of the NPT?, December 3, 2009
- The Day After: Iran and the Bomb, December 8, 2008
- Pigeons and Paranoia, October 22, 2008
- Welcome to Embassy Tehran (more or less), September 19, 2008
North Korea
- DPRK: China Loves Me, China Loves Me Not, June 8, 2009
- DPRK-ja-vu, all over again, October 3, 2008
Burma
- Is Burma Obama’s Real Test, May 25, 2009
ON WRITING (at Potomac Review Blog):
Taking Time to Talk about Time part 1, part 2
REALLY RANDOM STUFF:
AP article about the Woolworth’s lunch counter protests
Article about why tortillas taste good.
What is this “internet” of which you speak?
AP article about the White House Easter Egg Hunt, circa 1995
Michael Landweber writes fiction for adult, young adult and middle grade readers. He lives in Washington, DC with his wife and two children. His stories have appeared in Pindeldyboz, Fourteen Hills, Barrelhouse, American Literary Review, Fugue among others. He is an Associate Editor at the Potomac Review and can also be found writing and blogging about TV, movies and other fun stuff at Pop Matters.
