WELCOME
Hi, I'm Ray Sawhill. I hang around the NYC arts-and-media scenes and sometimes write about the arts. I'm married to the wonderful writer Polly Frost. The two of us sometimes collaborate on writing projects and new-media pieces. Please use the horizontal bar above to explore this website.
If you're curious to sample my writing about the arts, well, god blessya. Look at the right-hand column of the website. See the mini-headline that reads "Sample My Freelance Writing"? Click on the categories beneath it, and take your pick of dozens of reviews, articles and profiles.
Thanks for visiting.
Some Of Our Creations
SEX SCENES is our raunchy and satirical audio entertainment about Hollywood and the movies. 33 actors, more than 50 roles, 10.5 hours of laughs, hotness, and interweaving storylines ... It's like the first season of an HBO or Showtime series, only for audio. At our website for SEX SCENES you can buy a copy as a download or as an MP3 CD.
Here's a little teaser we made for SEX SCENES:
Enjoy "The Fold," a burlesque sci-fi webseries that Polly and I created with the gifted director Matt Lambert.
Buy a copy of Polly's far-out, sexy, and funny book of stories.
Because I know no shame, I reprint below what a few terrific people who I've been lucky enough to know have been nice enough to say about me and my writing.
- "Whatever he's up to — meditating on Malcolm X, panning Raymond Carver, eulogizing a beloved comic book, such as "Horny Biker Sluts" — Ray Sawhill's mind displays an intense feeling for life. He is a writer of extraordinary gifts, one of the finest critics of his generation." – Denis Dutton, author of "The Art Instinct" and editor of Arts & Letters Daily
- "I've long used Ray Sawhill as an unwavering compass on matters cultural and pop-cultural, but now I've come to think of him as a one-man global positioning system. Whatever his subject may be, he puts it in its proper place with prose that's pure pleasure to read." – Joe Morgenstern, film critic for The Wall Street Journal
- "I just read an absolutely splendid article on "Nashville" that was downloaded for me from Salon. It's by Ray Sawhill, and I think it's the best piece on movies I've read all year … I think Ray Sawhill does the best think pieces of anyone around." – Pauline Kael (to Francis Davis in his book "Afterglow")