
Novels Are Not the Only Books
"As soon as I finished reading 'Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?' I wanted to take stock of the Winterson canon."
April 20th, 2012
"As soon as I finished reading 'Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?' I wanted to take stock of the Winterson canon."
April 20th, 2012
Do we even have to say that physical beauty is beside the point when discussing the work of a major author?
February 25th, 2012
We cannot know what we are doing. We can only know when we are doing it wrong.
December 31st, 2011
A Hack comic is a sheep in wolf’s clothing, “poking fun,” never “killing.” He is the jester who won’t risk the king’s displeasure.
November 20th, 2011
Cage, so long associated with the New York avant-garde, now strikes me as quintessentially Californian, and more specifically, Angeleno.
November 2nd, 2011
Does this movement want to curb the plutocrats? Or does it just want to be?
October 21st, 2011
Our sit-in 46 years ago was a guerrilla raid; this is Wall Street under siege by the Lilliputians.
October 21st, 2011
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"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More

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"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More

"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More