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 ...

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 ...

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 ...