Living Long and Prospering
Living Long and Prospering: Five Reasons Why Old Sci-Fi Paperbacks Are Awesome
Five Reasons Why Old Sci-Fi Paperbacks Are Awesome I was kind of at a loss for something to write...
Living Long and Prospering: Artscience Sounds Nice, But It’s Totally Lame
Artscience Sounds Nice, But It’s Totally Lame It’s funny how easy it’s become — not that I assume it was...
Living Long and Prospering: Another Reason Why American Insecurity is a Renewable Resource
Another Reason Why American Insecurity is a Renewable Resource I’m going to take this in a bit of a different...
Living Long and Prospering: A Response to “How to Read a Racist Book to Your Kids”
You’ve heard it said that white people are fucking crazy. Having spent 22 years as a member of this decidedly...
Living Long and Prospering: Lady Day and the Prez
Lady Day and the Prez This week I dug Billie Holiday’s 1956 memoir, Lady Sings the Blues. For some reason...
Living Long and Prospering: On the Recent Immortalization of T.C. Boyle
On the Recent Immortalization of T.C. Boyle I’m halfway through T.C. Boyle’s 2003 novel Drop City right now — and...
Living Long and Prospering: Talk to the Media, Speak to the Language
Talk to the Media, Speak to the Language You must talk to the media, not to the programmer. To...
Living Long and Prospering: An Open Letter to the English Majors
An Open Letter to the English Majors Tomorrow I’m going to graduate from college. Finally. And rather than describing...
Living Long and Prospering: Pynchon Was Right — The Search for Order and Origin in Modern Armed Conflicts
I’m in the middle of Thomas Pynchon’s first novel, V, right now — and it’s just as fresh as...
Living Long and Prospering: Slavoj Zizek on Santa Claus
Slavoj Zizek on Santa Claus As a cultural critic and philosophical writer, Zizek has few equals — at least...
Living Long and Prospering: Why the Absence of the Missing Pulitzer Really Doesn't Matter
Why the Absence of the Missing Pulitzer Really Doesn't Matter Let me just start by telling you that the Pulitzer...
Living Long and Prospering: New Artifacts of Fear
New Artifacts of Fear Last week, while I was passing through the English department office on campus, I noticed that...
Living Long and Prospering: The Tension of Cultural Change: Revisiting Mishima’s Urge to Revisit Hagakure
The Tension of Cultural Change: Revisiting Mishima’s Urge to Revisit Hagakure This week I was reading The Way of the...
Living Long and Prospering: There Are No Prodigies Here
There Are No Prodigies Here I’m going back to the Atlantic again this week, where I found this piece highlighting...
Living Long and Prospering: The Limitations of the Slow Books Manifesto
The Limitations of the Slow Books Manifesto One of the few things I find comforting about contemporary society is that,...
Living Long and Prospering: The Absurdity of Profundity
The Absurdity of Profundity Tomorrow I'm going to Washington D.C. to cover the Reason Rally -- billed as the largest...
Living Long and Prospering: The Critical Standpoint of Pynchon's 'Force'
Last month, Studio 360 (a co-production of Public Radio International) ran an installment of their “Aha Moment” series, in which...
Living Long and Prospering: A Chat With Nate Hendley
Today, I happened to stumble upon a writer besides Stephenie Meyer who — what? — yes, makes a living just...
Living Long and Prospering: Musical Moments in Fiction
Musical Moments in Fiction When Elvis Costello told an interviewer that writing about music is like dancing about architecture, he...
Living Long and Prospering: Gulliver’s General Assembly
Gulliver’s General Assembly I should here observe to the reader, that a decree of the general Assembly in this country...
Living Long and Prospering: Separating the Message from the Medium
Separating the Message from the Medium When I needed to clear some space in my apartment upon entering my last...
