Email Author Alan Scherstuhl

Awards

• 2009 - Kansas City Press Club Heart of America Awards, published April 3, 2008

  "The Best Story of the Year"

• 2009 - Kansas City Press Club Heart of America Awards, published April 24, 2008

  "Desert Storm"

• 2009 - Kansas City Press Club Heart of America Awards, published September 11, 2008

  "Water Logged"

• 2009 - Kansas City Press Club Heart of America Awards, published November 13, 2008

  "What's At Stake"

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2012 Stories by Alan Scherstuhl

• This Is 40

  published December 20, 2012

  Sadly, country songwriters stand as nearly the only entertainers in our popular culture who craft memorable art on the subject of marriage, the... More >>

• On His Majesty’s Secret Service

  published December 20, 2012

  It's dispiriting that a film about the romantic life of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who cultivated a small coterie of mistresses, should exhibit so... More >>

• Good Spielberg's Bad Moments

  published November 15, 2012

  The first few minutes of Lincoln play out like a parody of the expectations of Steven Spielberg's detractors. The Great Emancipator... More >>

• No, This Is How It's Done

  published October 11, 2012

  Perhaps you've lost faith in movies about amusingly digressive criminals. Maybe you believe it's no longer possible to be pleasurably jolted by... More >>

• Indiana Jones and the Perils of Humanistic Decency

  published August 30, 2012

  The story goes that while filming in Tunisia in the summer of 1980, Steven Spielberg avoided the dysentery that afflicted most of the cast and... More >>

• Citizen Hearst

  published June 14, 2012

  Hearst the man dies a half hour into Leslie Iwerks's Citizen Hearst the film, a biographic doc true to the letter of its title, if... More >>