
The Empty Chair: A Petition for Ghassan Zaqtan
Support for Zaqtan upon Canada's refusal of visa
June 3rd, 2013
Support for Zaqtan upon Canada's refusal of visa
June 3rd, 2013




Hopper's reception abroad
January 1st, 2013
On Peter Jackson's THE HOBBIT
January 1st, 2013
On autobiographies by Jay-Z, Patti Smith, and Johnny Ramone
December 7th, 2012
On three English translations of 'The Iliad'
October 30th, 2012

On 'How Should a Person Be?' and the explicit attention to female desire in recent novels, films, and shows
September 27th, 2012
Cheryl Strayed, Erika Schickel, & a Facebook Fracas
August 25th, 2012
"To become the person who wrote that prose, that poetry, would mean that I had, at long last, truly become myself."
May 14th, 2012
"I stole home and robbed my parents of their American Dream."
May 12th, 2012
"Los Angeles became a carnival of repression."
April 30th, 2012
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"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More


"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More

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"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More

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

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