On "Deenie," "Tiger Eyes," "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret"
November 27th, 2012
L.A. is where I come back to when women divorce me.
November 21st, 2012
...the hard-hooks that fold you down to your knees...
November 14th, 2012
A reckoning with the author of 'Bright Lights, Big City'
October 3rd, 2012
I lived in Shaoyang, a city in Hunan province famous for clementines and murder.
August 30th, 2012
The shadow of the culture wars falls over these books, and Jane Austen becomes both the rescued and the rescuer.
September 5th, 2011
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
