The Varying Poverties of Now In the appendix to his brief but radiant 2010 manifesto ‘Reality Hunger’—a supremely confident and practically pedagogical collage of quotations and personal observations published in order to define a perceived new age of literature—David Shields writes with this kind of over-excited, unnecessarily aggressive tone. He’s …
Digressions on Liner Notes: Richie Havens’ Stonehenge (1970) (Before I start, I should say that this is a new thing I’m doing. …
The Wheelbarrows of Violence After missing a 7:15am train on my way upstate last Saturday, I was talking to a homeless guy …
Five Reasons Why Old Sci-Fi Paperbacks Are Awesome I was kind of at a loss for something to write this week …
The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing Tarquin Hall Simon & Schuster, 2010 ISBN-10: 1439172382 — ♦ — Unlike Sharon, (my fellow …
Artscience Sounds Nice, But It’s Totally Lame It’s funny how easy it’s become — not that I assume it was ever too …
Songs That Make Books Better A few months ago I wrote about some pretty general musical moments in fiction, basically because I …
Another Reason Why American Insecurity is a Renewable Resource I’m going to take this in a bit of a different direction today …
Bloodline James Rollins William Morrow 464 pages ISBN-10: 0061784796 — ♦ — There’s a very fine line that exists between competent …
You’ve heard it said that white people are fucking crazy. Having spent 22 years as a member of this decidedly unselective group, …
