"The problem with Krazy Kat is the same as its genius: It cannot be consumed quickly or easily."
May 16th, 2012
"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
"To become the person who wrote that prose, that poetry, would mean that I had, at long last, truly become myself."
May 14th, 2012
"I stole home and robbed my parents of their American Dream."
May 12th, 2012
"On May 6th, a new breed of digital nightingale chirped all night, their echoes sketching a vast and cozy nest all over France."
May 11th, 2012
The alien can be found within us; for proof, we need look no further than the colonies of bacteria proliferating in the crook of the human elbow.
May 9th, 2012
The only way The Hunger Games works as art is if it shows ordinary people being entertained by death. Then it forces the audience to look at itself.
May 8th, 2012
On 'Magic Hours,' 'Miss Fuller,' 'The Dangerous Book Four Boys,' 'The Fault of Our Stars,' and 'The Guardians.'
May 6th, 2012
On Sunday, French voters will go to the polls to decide whether Sarkozy, the incumbent, or François Hollande, the poll favorite, will be president.
May 4th, 2012
"L.A. hip hop, like the punk and skateboarding subcultures of the 1970s, had sprouted from the imaginations of forgotten kids..."
May 3rd, 2012
When it comes to matters of race, L.A. would rather forget.
May 2nd, 2012
How true, how frequent, is the "dead or straight" binary to the lesbian novel at large?
May 2nd, 2012
"Los Angeles became a carnival of repression."
April 30th, 2012
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"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... 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
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
