The Dream of a Common Bookstore
Poetry, feminism, and Austin's BookWoman bookstore
April 20th, 2013
“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Independence Day: A Dispatch from Edinburgh
December 9th, 2012
Hotel Theory: The History of the Los Angeles Hotel
The History of the Los Angeles Hotel in the Twentieth Century: An Interview Roundtable
October 18th, 2012
Hotel Theory: The History of the Los Angeles Hotel, Part 3
The History of the Los Angeles Hotel in the Twentieth Century: An Interview Roundtable
October 18th, 2012
Hotel Theory: The History of the Los Angeles Hotel, Part 2
The History of the Los Angeles Hotel in the Twentieth Century: An Interview Roundtable
October 18th, 2012
Bringing Chaos to Order: On Kurt Vonnegut's Literary Remains
On Kurt Vonnegut's literary remains
February 24th, 2013
Etheridge Knight, Valentine
February 14th, 2013
L.A. Woman
What truly sets Babitz apart from L.A. writers like Joan Didion or Nathanael West is that a part of her still buys the Hollywood fantasy.
December 18th, 2011
Theaters of Cruelty
An excerpt from "The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning."
July 8th, 2011
Mentors: Stanley Cavell
I was inchoate and jelly-like in graduate school (kind of like a slime mold), but Cavell was kind to me anyway.
January 5th, 2012
The Antichrist Accepts His Book Award
April 18th, 2013
Mentors: J.H. Prynne
I sometimes say that Jeremy Prynne taught me everything I know about poetry: which is why I know nothing about poetry.
December 28th, 2011
Buster Keaton and the World of Objects
Given the choice between a book and a baseball bat, there is no choice for Buster. He’ll take the bat every time
April 19th, 2011
Model Villages, Short Stories, and Other Miniatures
When it comes to trying to make a piece of fiction, scaling down is an essential strategy. The world has "scalability" in spades.
July 25th, 2011
Genres
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
SF
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
Art & Architecture
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
Literary Fiction
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More