Remembering Derrida's "Specters of Marx" lecture
April 23rd, 2013
A Year in Wine and Poems
April 19th, 2013
A response to the 'Blow Up the Humanities' symposium
January 12th, 2013
The education of a screenwriter
November 21st, 2012
Jon Wiener reflects on the passing of a Marxist scholar and historian.
October 4th, 2012
On Marriage, Writer’s Block and Transcendence
June 7th, 2012
On literary sociality and the romance between William Faulkner and Joan Williams.
January 6th, 2012
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
By Nightfall, like The Hours, is chock full of literary reference, especially Thomas Mann (Death in Venice), not Virginia Woolf.
November 19th, 2011
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 Tom Perrotta’s post-millennial suburban humanism.
October 11th, 2011
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
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
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"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
