"The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future" is an experiment not in terror and not necessarily Dickensian.
December 23rd, 2011
Six writers talk about truthiness in nonfiction.
April 15th, 2012
"I stole home and robbed my parents of their American Dream."
May 12th, 2012
All King's novels, even the stinkers, have resonance.
July 17th, 2012
Crazy people generally don’t know they’re crazy and Dick’s abiding awareness of the dubious nature of his visions makes him at worst a pathetic figure
February 24th, 2012
“He was afraid neither of overripe sentimentality nor of despairing bleakness.”
June 12th, 2012
Reprint publications are crucial to maintaining an institutional memory for these popular genres.
July 1st, 2012
It was decided, a species of what we might call a “postmodern general strike” will come lumbering out of the revolutionary textbook.
November 12th, 2011
So it is with memoir; the facts take a backseat to the truth of memory, to the quality of feeling.
September 8th, 2011
How to make sense of such unspeakable loss?
December 21st, 2012
This was the canonical American art for which the claim "you had to be there" seemed strongest ...
May 19th, 2011
Mailer's false accents — Texas, Patrician, boxer-tough — are like Orson Welles's false noses.
October 3rd, 2011
"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
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"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
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"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
