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
Jack Gilbert, 1925 - 2012
...the hard-hooks that fold you down to your knees...
November 14th, 2012
For Jayne Cortez, R.I.P.
It was you ....
January 5th, 2013
Tiger Lady: On Joan Williams
Faulkner tried the personae of mentor, father figure, and literary conduit in an effort to have a love affair that trumped the other roles.
December 11th, 2011
The Haunting of “Homeland”
On Showtime's "Homeland," an American ghost story
October 9th, 2012
Kevin Young, Valentine
February 14th, 2013
Walking Mural: Asco and the Ends of Chicano Art
August 23rd, 2012
Privatized Prisons: A Human Marketplace
January 10th, 2013
Jumping the Dragon Gate: Life in Shaoyang
I lived in Shaoyang, a city in Hunan province famous for clementines and murder.
August 30th, 2012
In the Charles Wright Museum
All around me were Charles’s lines and poems: his deck, the shrubs and flowers, the weather and hillside, and the Pacific below were all characters.
August 12th, 2011
Strange Bedfellows
on Christianity and homosexuality
February 23rd, 2012
Deconstructing Wendy
This play unfolds, as so many contemporary dramas now do, over the medium of email.
November 25th, 2011
Signs and Wonders
Read in tandem, Starr’s and Braudy’s books offer a concise but compelling reflection on California history.
May 13th, 2011
Books
Genres
Literary Fiction
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
Percival Everett
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
Mike Davis
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Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
Art & Architecture
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
Television
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More