The Gorey Details
The joy of Edward Gorey's macabre musings
October 31st, 2012“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
A Guide to Isaac Bashevis Singer
On the Nobel Prize-winning Yiddish patriarch and his moral universe of piety and outrage...
September 1st, 2012
The Gray Area: An Open Letter to Marjorie Perloff
July 13th, 2012
A Grosser Power: A Contrarian Look at The Hunger Games
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
Golden Eye
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 Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future
"The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future" is an experiment not in terror and not necessarily Dickensian.
December 23rd, 2011
The Great Shock
The crisis occurred and persists because an alternative was and is mostly unthinkable.
October 17th, 2011
Good Germans: On Heinrich Böll
What happens in Heinrich Böll's novels, and why am I calling them experimental?
August 3rd, 2011
The Ghost of Wrath
Harrison Gray Otis: a biography in progress.
July 15th, 2011
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"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
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