Name Michael Ventura | Role Novelist | |
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Born October 31, 1945 (age 78) ( 1945-10-31 ) United States Movies I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes, the Man and His Work, Roadie Books We've Had a Hundred Years of, Letters at 3am, The Zoo where You're Fe, Cassavetes Directs: John Cas, If I was a Highway: Essays Similar People James Hillman, Alan Rudolph, Zalman King, Alexandra Cassavetes, Zoe Cassavetes | ||
#105 - Michael Ventura | Applied Empathy: The New Language of Leadership
Michael Ventura (born October 31, 1945) is an American novelist, screenwriter, essayist, and cultural critic.
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- 105 Michael Ventura Applied Empathy The New Language of Leadership
- Michael Ventura Inventory of Timelessness
- History
- Film director
- Awards
- References
Michael Ventura: Inventory of Timelessness
History
Michael Ventura commenced his career as a journalist at the Austin Sun, a counter-culture bi-weekly newspaper that published in the 1970s. Ventura is best known for his long-running column, "Letters at 3 A.M.", which first appeared in L.A. Weekly in the early 1980s and continued in the Austin Chronicle until 2015. He has published three novels: Night Time Losing Time (1989), The Zoo Where You're Fed to God (1994), and The Death of Frank Sinatra (1996). He is currently completing another novel, about Miriam of Magdala, an excerpt from which was published in the third issue of the CalArts literary journal Black Clock in 2005. He is the author of two essay collections, Shadow-Dancing in the U.S.A. (1985) (out of print) and Letters at 3 A.M.: Reports on Endarkenment (1994). With psychologist James Hillman, Ventura co-authored the 1992 bestseller We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy - And the World's Getting Worse.
He appears as a fictional character in Steve Erickson's 1996 novel, Amnesiascope.
He wrote the screenplay for Echo Park (1986), among other films, including Roadie (1980).
He curated the Sundance Festival's 1989 retrospective on John Cassavetes.