I sometimes say that Jeremy Prynne taught me everything I know about poetry: which is why I know nothing about poetry.
December 28th, 2011
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
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
Swimming pools, movie stars.
April 18th, 2012
For every abandoned business, store, school, or church in the city, a new one has been built in the suburbs.
January 16th, 2012
The legacy of the hurricane in literature and Louisiana
October 17th, 2012
Awakening A Dreaming, Comfortable King
January 21st, 2013
On the politics of BBC's Doctor Who
March 30th, 2013
"No author writing today...can ignore the female reader."
February 7th, 2013
on Andrey Kurkov’s oddball Russian crime fiction.
February 11th, 2012
Ray Bradbury up close and personal.
June 14th, 2012
Did Chávez create Venezuela? Or did Venezuela create Chávez?
March 20th, 2013
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
