More specifically, After Hours: Scorsese, Grief and the Grammar of Cinema is "The Grief Diaries: An Interview with Ben Tanzer by Curtis Smith," which you may read here. You may also read some excerpt below. Cool? Quite so, I'd say.
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CS: You were raised in a house where there was a lot art and appreciation of art. How did your upbringing shape the artist/writer you’ve become? And how did this background prime you for your appreciation of After Hours?
BT: This is an interesting question for me and it plays out in the book. On the one hand my brother and I were immersed in art in numerous ways. Art books. Going to museums. Movies, so many movies, and doing so wherever we were. The theater, my mom would hand me the New Yorker and say pick two shows to attend this weekend and we’d drive to New York City for an overnight trip. There were issues of Art Forum, Cineaste, and the New York Review of Books lying around the house. We went to music festivals. I didn’t necessarily embrace all of it, but I was in it and surrounded by it. Plus, my parents were always talking about art. And my father was an artist. He had a studio in our house, and a second one outside the house. He was always painting and teaching, he ran a tattoo studio. He also struggled with his perceived lack of success and exposure, the hustle to make money, and while I didn’t have creative aspirations as a child or young person, on some level I know I didn’t want to struggle or live like that. I was always focused on working 9-5, having a regular paycheck and health insurance, putting away money for retirement, and then when I started writing, I decided my writing life would have to run adjacent to work, and I really stuck to that for twenty plus years. I wondered throughout this time though if I was compromising my chance to be more successful, if I was too tightly wrapped and not prioritizing the work. I’d read books like Just Kids, which I write about in the book and I’d think, have I done this wrong? This is one of the key themes driving the book—looking at After Hours as a lens to explore my grief over my father’s loss and as exploration of what it means to feel trapped and try to break through into a creative life.