Tynan's Anger

Arts & Culture Commentary from a Loving Digital Skeptic

About

portrait of Ethan StanislawskiTynan’s Anger is a blog by Ethan Stanislawski, a freelance arts & entertainment blogger, SEO professional and an incoming master’s student in the Indiana University School of Journalism.

He is a graduate of the University of Chicago, where he majored in History of Science, and served as section editor of the “Voices” Arts & Entertainment section of the Chicago Maroon. He also wrote for the Chicago Shady Dealer, the campus humor magazine, and was actively involved in the theater, music, and film culture of both the University of Chicago and the city of Chicago at large.

Since graduation, he has been a regular writer for Prefix Magazine, and has also written for Blogcritics, Perfect Sound Forever, Hypebot, TwiTip, and the Village Voice. During the day, he has had extensive experience with search engine optimization (SEO).

His specialties include theater, music, film and comedy, especially with an academic focus. He is committed to connecting the long, rich history of the arts and cultural word to the hectic, multivariate world of the digital age.

Why Tynan’s Anger?

Tynan’s Anger is a loving allusion to Kenneth Tynan’s review of Look Back in Anger, a landmark of 20th century theater criticism. Look Back in Anger shaped my views of theater and youth, and I directed a production of the play in college. Since graduation I have been working off that approach, but the name has stuck.

Other deeply influential works of arts criticism include:

Lester Bangs: Of Pop And Pies and Fun (Review of The Stooges’ Fun House).

Mary McCarthy: Eugene O’Neill-Dry Ice

Susan Sontag: Notes on Camp

Jonathan Rosenbaum: Cutting Heroes Down To Size (Reviews of Saving Private Ryan, Small Soldiers)

On George Meyer: “Taking Humor Seriously – George Meyer, the funniest man behind the funniest show on TV.”

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