Jack Shafer, Author at Washington City Paper

Let’s count the many ways Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey got the future wrong. We’re still a decade away from commercial shuttle service ferrying earthlings into orbit and still […]

Author Archives: Jack Shafer

The Air and Space Museum’s 2001: A Space Odyssey Exhibition Is the Ultimate Trip

“To Be in Barry’s Proximity Could Be Better than Drinking the Elixir of Life”

Getting Over It for Good

Despotic Do-Goodniks

Blinded by Sources

Stan Mack and Janet Bode

All About Me, Part I

Operation Game Warden

Frank Deford

Serving Fine Whine at the Washington Post

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