Flower creation, maggot painting, microbe literature, and bio art.
April 13th, 2013
On Javier Marías and the sources of identity in our times
June 22nd, 2012
On her classic 'The Ballad of Sexual Dependency'
December 23rd, 2012
At first I was skeptical about Occupy Riverside. But the more I heard about what was going on downtown, the more enthusiastic I became.
November 13th, 2011
Bradbury addresses every reader with a fatherly clarity. He’s instructive, in the profound sense of passing experience on.
June 11th, 2012
I met Ernest Borgnine last summer at a wrap party for 'The Man Who Shook the Hand...
August 20th, 2012
On Naguib Mahfouz's 'Karnak Café'
August 15th, 2012
On "Cash Out," "Last Kind Words," and "A Death in Mexico
November 26th, 2012
Pity the book. It’s dead again.
April 18th, 2011
Poetry, feminism, and Austin's BookWoman bookstore
April 20th, 2013
"I stole home and robbed my parents of their American Dream."
May 12th, 2012
Education is as close to a secular religion as we have in the United States.
November 15th, 2011
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
