The education of a screenwriter
November 21st, 2012
Jon Wiener reflects on the passing of a Marxist scholar and historian.
October 4th, 2012
A Year in Wine and Poems
April 19th, 2013
A response to the 'Blow Up the Humanities' symposium
January 12th, 2013
I wondered if O’Brien’s words, like explosive devices hidden in the humid jungles, had triggered these awful images, or if Iraq simply played forever in Mike’s head, a fractured repetitive loop.
November 18th, 2011
On Marriage, Writer’s Block and Transcendence
June 7th, 2012
Remembering Derrida's "Specters of Marx" lecture
April 23rd, 2013
As it ticks away, "The Clock" taps into the enormous storehouse of images bouncing around in our heads.
July 14th, 2011
An excerpt from "The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning."
July 8th, 2011
By Nightfall, like The Hours, is chock full of literary reference, especially Thomas Mann (Death in Venice), not Virginia Woolf.
November 19th, 2011
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
On literary sociality and the romance between William Faulkner and Joan Williams.
January 6th, 2012
On Tom Perrotta’s post-millennial suburban humanism.
October 11th, 2011
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
