Simenon was a relentless self-mythologizer, but a pitiless self-analyzer too.
February 18th, 2012
Kipling is a fundamentally dark writer.
August 27th, 2011
Some Thoughts on My Downton Abbey Obsession (and Yours) As We Wait Between Seasons 2 and 3
July 29th, 2012
On 'the Republican Party's intellectual leader' and the problem with 'personhood'
October 30th, 2012
Writing my book, I kept asking myself: Why haven’t we fought back? Why don’t 21st century writers organize?
November 12th, 2011
Though numbers are, in many regards, decisive, they are not everything.
October 15th, 2011
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
On America's crisis of Democracy
July 28th, 2012
On the thriving, New York-based small press
December 20th, 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
On Laird Hunt's fractured narratives and his latest novel 'Kind One'
December 3rd, 2012
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"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
