Crazy people generally don’t know they’re crazy and Dick’s abiding awareness of the dubious nature of his visions makes him at worst a pathetic figure
February 24th, 2012
on Christianity and homosexuality
February 23rd, 2012
Simenon was a relentless self-mythologizer, but a pitiless self-analyzer too.
February 18th, 2012
It blasts open new tunnels between the mind and The Other, tunnels not easily sealed by the censorious henchmen of fading paradigms.
February 15th, 2012
The Prop 8 trial is, in fact, one of the greatest stories of our time.
February 12th, 2012
on Andrey Kurkov’s oddball Russian crime fiction.
February 11th, 2012
On the American culture of accumulation, and the author's addiction to A&E’s "Storage Wars."
February 4th, 2012
Louis Menand’s 'The Metaphysical Club' and Alex Ross’s 'The Rest is Noise' make intellectual history into page-turners.
February 1st, 2012
Noir books by Jake Hinkson, John Rector, Reed Farrel Coleman, Alan Glynn, and Harry Whittington.
January 23rd, 2012
For every abandoned business, store, school, or church in the city, a new one has been built in the suburbs.
January 16th, 2012
His last words to me as he opened the door and stepped into the hallway were: "Feel free to use any of this in the script."
January 15th, 2012
I decided to get high.
January 15th, 2012
It's no wonder that we are often confused by impostors, delighted by sock puppets, and relieved — most of us, anyway — that we remain singular.
January 14th, 2012
Just as the attacks themselves had little to do with America, so did America play little role in the defeat of al-Qa'ida's ideology.
January 9th, 2012
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... 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
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
