New Girl & The Mindy Project: Ep. 10 "Bathtub" / Ep. 8 "Two to One"
The Business of Being Born
December 7th, 2012“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Girls: "Boys"
Big Boys Don't Cry
February 18th, 2013
Here Comes the Tidal Wave: On "Enlightened"
A love letter to the riskiest show on cable
February 28th, 2013
Black Blood: Ross Macdonald and the Oil Spill
An offshore oil platform stood up out of its windward end like the metal handle of a dagger that had stabbed the world and made it spill black blood.
April 22nd, 2011
The Writers that Shadow Us
On the ghost of Graham Greene.
January 4th, 2012
Indigenous to the Hood
On Los Angeles's Gang Tours
November 26th, 2012
The Sheikh and I: Ghostwriting for a Crown Prince in Exile
Ghostwriting for a crown prince in exile
January 8th, 2013
Letter From Trinidad: Beyoncé Is Gold
Like all pop stars of the stature she’s now attained, Beyoncé is less an expresser of herself than a mirror for our fantasies and fears.
May 27th, 2011
Mentors: Siddhartha Deb
While a student of his I often felt the tectonic plates of my own opinions and tightly-held ideas loosen or shift.
January 5th, 2012
From Moscow Art Theatre to Catfish Row
Mamoulian, perhaps more than anyone else, defined the original racial landscape that became the setting for Porgy and Bess.
February 28th, 2012
Mr. Amis's Planet
Martin Amis has always been a casualty of his own biography.
April 25th, 2012
Becoming Story: The State of the Memoir
'Memoir begins not with event but with the intuition of meaning...'
January 10th, 2013
Untucking "RuPaul's Drag Race"
Virginia Woolf, camp, and queer identity
May 6th, 2013
Anti-non-Semitism: An Investigation of the Shiksa
Who, or what, is the 'shiksa'?
March 3rd, 2013
Life in Storage: Of Capitalism and A&E's "Storage Wars"
On the American culture of accumulation, and the author's addiction to A&E’s "Storage Wars."
February 4th, 2012
Authors
Jon Wiener
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Percival Everett
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
Angilee Shah
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Genres
Art & Architecture
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
Television
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
Comics
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
Film
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More