In Limbo
"We will all be destroyed whether we like it or not. I say let's like it."
September 20th, 2011“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Hard Stuff
2011 is turning out to be a banner year for crime fiction.
September 17th, 2011
An Unfinishable Work
On buildings, plots, and mourning at Ground Zero.
September 11th, 2011
Be Thou the Voice
So it is with memoir; the facts take a backseat to the truth of memory, to the quality of feeling.
September 8th, 2011
Counter-Culture Colophon
On Barney Rosset and the history of Grove Press
September 7th, 2011
Just Like a Woman
The shadow of the culture wars falls over these books, and Jane Austen becomes both the rescued and the rescuer.
September 5th, 2011
Letter from London: Lost in the Supermarket
Searching for a political meaning in the London "shopping riots."
September 4th, 2011
A Portis Reader
Not to mention that if you have to call a thing "True," it’s probably not.
September 2nd, 2011
Perfectly Plausible Worlds
He is both a post-national and post-postmodern writer on the one hand and quite simply a page-turner on the other.
August 31st, 2011
Quotidian Stories
When asked which I might recommend that may have passed readers' notice, I settled on work by Jill Ciment and Jane Gardam.
August 29th, 2011
Paperback Writers: Rudyard Kipling
Kipling is a fundamentally dark writer.
August 27th, 2011
Books That Made Us: Charlotte’s Web
Sometimes a book comes along and you feel so lucky that somebody pressed it into your hands to read that you read it right away.
August 24th, 2011
Still Hungry
On Ben Lerner's "Leaving the Atocha Station."
August 23rd, 2011
Letter from London: Soot and Ash
Once you begin to look for influences, they seem to be everywhere — in the weather, in politics, in literature and art.
August 22nd, 2011
Cut and Paste and Run
So, I find myself wondering, what am I going to do about the man who I think plagiarized me?
August 20th, 2011
Genres
Television
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
Literary Fiction
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
Comics
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
Jon Wiener
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Percival Everett
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More