Do we even have to say that physical beauty is beside the point when discussing the work of a major author?
February 25th, 2012
On Mailer, Eggers, and the protagonists that walk off the page.
December 7th, 2012
On the film adaptation of James Welch's 'Winter in the Blood'
October 27th, 2012
I’d found my thing. I embraced the scary. I befriended it. The monsters and I fell in love, and I didn’t question why. I was home.
October 30th, 2011
Cage, so long associated with the New York avant-garde, now strikes me as quintessentially Californian, and more specifically, Angeleno.
November 2nd, 2011
Word and line can marry enticingly in the art of tattoo.
May 16th, 2011
if you self-publish, you’re branded a sinner of sorts.
March 17th, 2012
Louis Menand’s 'The Metaphysical Club' and Alex Ross’s 'The Rest is Noise' make intellectual history into page-turners.
February 1st, 2012
The adventure in The Phantom Tollbooth doesn’t change; it’s the meaning we find in it that evolves.
November 17th, 2011
The best faeries ever.
June 25th, 2012
A symptom?! Why does a book celebrating the talents of individual Los Angeles artists suddenly go all Fernand Braudel on us
November 11th, 2011
Patricia Patterson is an accretive artist, invariably extending, but rarely leaving much behind.
June 16th, 2011
I would come to the Parker novels with fresh, innocent eyes, like a newborn fawn staring at the world for the first time, or at a pair of headlights.
October 14th, 2011
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... 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
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
