Fabulous Monsters: Matthew Specktor’s “American Dream Machine”
HOLLYWOOD FICTION is almost as old as the industry itself. It tends, like the broader genre of Los Angeles fiction, toward the dystopian, showing...
HOLLYWOOD FICTION is almost as old as the industry itself. It tends, like the broader genre of Los Angeles fiction, toward the dystopian, showing...
Simenon was a relentless self-mythologizer, but a pitiless self-analyzer too.
Didion is so afraid of her own depths of feeling she can’t avoid revealing them. That’s her contradiction, her fascination.
H.P. Lovecraft has been regarded as a classic for at least twenty years now; Machen, too, deserves his place in the corrupting sun.
Kipling is a fundamentally dark writer.