Magicland
I’m not equating him with Hitler, mind you, or Joe Smith or Jim Jones. I’m just trying to understand my own compulsion.
July 1st, 2011
“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Man is Not Cat Food
Are we in danger, then, of a widespread, coordinated, animal revolt?
June 6th, 2011
Marilynne Robinson and the Miraculous Privilege of Existence
"For Robinson, America has declined because of pervasive and corrosive ideologies that ascribe human motivation solely to self-interest."
May 22nd, 2012
Martin Beck Has a Cold
The police procedural is rich with political implications, a feature fundamental to Sjöwall and Wahlöö's literary accomplishment.
August 5th, 2011
Mentors: Alison Leslie Gold
What Gold modeled for me was the idea that the writer delivers stories that the reader needs. The point is to do that job well.
December 28th, 2011
Mentors: Barry Hannah
"There are some howlers among the pros as delectable as the successes and just as fine a tool of learning."
December 26th, 2011
Mentors: J.H. Prynne
I sometimes say that Jeremy Prynne taught me everything I know about poetry: which is why I know nothing about poetry.
December 28th, 2011
Mentors: James Baldwin
He missed the first class. In fact, he missed the first three.
January 6th, 2012
Mentors: Marianne Moore
"One may be pardoned, yes I know / One may, for love undying."
January 3rd, 2012
Mentors: Marvin Mudrick
I would not tear papers apart — say they're no good and say they don't work — unless I believed that all of you are capable of writing good fiction.
December 30th, 2011
Mentors: Siddhartha Deb
While a student of his I often felt the tectonic plates of my own opinions and tightly-held ideas loosen or shift.
January 5th, 2012
Mentors: Stanley Cavell
I was inchoate and jelly-like in graduate school (kind of like a slime mold), but Cavell was kind to me anyway.
January 5th, 2012
Mentors: Steven Corbin
A reminiscence of his mentor, writing instructor, and friend.
January 7th, 2012
Mission Accomplished: On "Zero Dark Thirty"
In defense of Kathryn Bigelow's Best Picture-nominated film
February 24th, 2013
Authors
Mike Davis
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Percival Everett
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Jayne Cortez
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Genres
SF
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
Comics
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
Television
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
Literary Fiction
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More