
“Exquisite in both story and sentence, the Anne books built me as a reader, which is to say: they built me.”Sarah Mesle on "Anne of Green Gables"



“Bud Light Lime, Unlikely Hope”
January 17th, 2013

“Souljahs of Fortune: On "Black Pulp"”
May 27th, 2013



“The Academy In Peril: A Symposium”
December 21st, 2012
“Fire in the Hole: The New Yorker's In-House Radicals”
August 2nd, 2012


“Having, or Making, or Thinking About Making a Drink”
October 28th, 2011

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

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


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

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

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