Bayou towns are still feeling the effects of the BP spill two years later.
September 15th, 2012
On realizing a favorite cultural nightmare: the destruction of NYC
November 24th, 2012
Flower creation, maggot painting, microbe literature, and bio art.
April 13th, 2013
The shadow of the culture wars falls over these books, and Jane Austen becomes both the rescued and the rescuer.
September 5th, 2011
The Prop 8 trial is, in fact, one of the greatest stories of our time.
February 12th, 2012
"As soon as I finished reading 'Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?' I wanted to take stock of the Winterson canon."
April 20th, 2012
Celebrating 200 years of Jane Austen's masterpiece
January 27th, 2013
"The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future" is an experiment not in terror and not necessarily Dickensian.
December 23rd, 2011
Writing can't be planned for or predicted, and when it happens, when the surge begins, it brings a satisfaction like nothing else.
December 5th, 2011
On internet criticism, Wikipedia, and the waning of expertise.
June 7th, 2011
"To become the person who wrote that prose, that poetry, would mean that I had, at long last, truly become myself."
May 14th, 2012
A strange concoction of high art, hazy humanitarianism, and athletic genius.
September 18th, 2012
I would not tear papers apart — say they're no good and say they don't work — unless I believed that all of you are capable of writing good fiction.
December 30th, 2011
The Singularity & late capitalism & technological despair — oh my!
September 12th, 2012
Why Luhrmann's 'Gatsby' Works
June 6th, 2013
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
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"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
