Secret Histories
aviator’s goggles, Victorian waistcoats, top hats, bustle skirts, leather corsets, bizarre, mechanical accessories
July 11th, 2011“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Tasting Notes: A Year in Wine and Poems
A Year in Wine and Poems
April 19th, 2013
The Mysterious Island
I'm writing this because I just found out that my favorite bookseller in the world is dead.
June 11th, 2011
Mentors: Barry Hannah
"There are some howlers among the pros as delectable as the successes and just as fine a tool of learning."
December 26th, 2011
Obesity as Metaphor
Four new novels aim to constitute a literature of physicality
December 27th, 2012
Portrait of a Press: Wave Books
"If you're getting the sense that Wave has a different idea of what constitutes a 'book' than other publishers, you're on to something."
May 15th, 2012
The Nature of Cinderella
There is no one authoritative tale of Cinderella, only a hall of mirrors...
July 9th, 2012
Notes on P.T. Anderson and The Master
January 13th, 2013
Mentors: Steven Corbin
A reminiscence of his mentor, writing instructor, and friend.
January 7th, 2012
Bang! Zoom! Straight to the Moon!: Melissa McCarthy and the New Female Slapstick
The New Female Slapstick
February 20th, 2013
SXSW Critic’s Notebook: Rebooting "Evil Dead"
On Fede Alvarez's 'Evil Dead' remake
March 20th, 2013
SXSW Notebook: On Geoff Marslett's Film "Loves Her Gun"
Critics, Firearms, & Trieste Kelly Dunn
March 29th, 2013
SXSW Critic’s Notebook: Much Ado About What, Exactly? Joss Whedon’s Progressive Bardolatry
On Joss Whedon's 'Much Ado About Nothing' adaptation
April 5th, 2013
Plutocratic Vistas
On America's crisis of Democracy
July 28th, 2012
A Guide to Isaac Bashevis Singer
On the Nobel Prize-winning Yiddish patriarch and his moral universe of piety and outrage...
September 1st, 2012
Authors
Percival Everett
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
Charles Yu
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Genres
Television
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
Film
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
SF
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
Comics
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
Art & Architecture
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More