J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

While The Simpsons has inevitably changed a lot throughout the show’s 36 years on the air, I was still struck by just how much Homer’s entire personality has transformed since the show’s pilot episode ...

Although Bart was briefly viewed as the antihero of The Simpsons, Homer naturally emerged as its protagonist, according to showrunner Matt Selman. The Simpsons is now the longest-running scripted ...