This anthology of writing by the influential film and TV critic Andrew Johnston is signed by the book's creator and editor, Martha Orton (Andrew's mother) and Matt Zoller Seitz (Andrew's friend and colleague, and the author of two appreciations printed in the book).

"What do I strive to contribute through my passion and visions?" wrote Andrew Johnston, the influential film and TV critic for Time Out New York, US Magazine and The House Next Door. "I want to help make the world make a little more sense. I want to do work as a critic and journalist that helps increase the audience of work that deserves exposure and explain why it deserves exposure. And eventually I want to create artistic work of my own - in the form of fiction or essays - that, in its own way, does the same thing - work that illustrates connections, puts things in context and, ultimately, makes people realize that for all the insane bullshit that's going on out there (and has been going on out there since time immemorial), the world is really a pretty cool place."

Andrew did all of that and more during his unfortunately too-brief time on earth. He died of cancer at 40 in New York City, but after two decades of being a prodigious and idiosyncratic writer on film, television and other subjects (including fiction and pop music) and one of the youngest members of the then-Baby Boomer dominated New York Film Critics' Circle, where he pushed to have Generation X favorites like Rushmore, Donnie Darko, South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, and the Lord of the Rings trilogies recognized for their artistry.

Andrew was also one of the earliest practitioners of what is now called the "TV recap," and many of the techniques that are now in common use by recappers (including writing about episode storylines non-chronologically, or by theme or motif, and putting bulleted lists of observations that didn't fit the main piece down at the bottom) were invented or perfected by Andrew, in his critical writing on episodes of Mad Men, The Wire, and Friday Night Lights for the blog The House Next Door (now a part of Slant Magazine).

This volume is assembled and edited by Andrew's mother, the poet and spiritualist Martha Orton. Martha provided poems for Matt Zoller Seitz's book Mad Men Carousel, which includes footnotes taken from Andrew's writing on the series. The book is a labor of love in the truest sense, providing a vast sample of Andrew's writing from college through his peak in the late nineties and early aughts, through his final weeks.

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ iUniverse (January 20, 2022)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 512 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1663232377
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1663232373
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.64 pounds
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.28 x 9 inche