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PODCAST: Francesca Lia Block talks to Clarissa Romano
Clarissa RomanoApr 23, 2012
Palimpsest
Good narrative grammar is the basic building block of story. Winterson isn't interested in narrative grammar.
Nicola GriffithApr 21, 2012
Playful Games with Reality: Christopher Priest’s “The Islanders”
"Part of this is play; part of it is deadly serious."
Paul KincaidApr 21, 2012
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Novels Are Not the Only Books
"As soon as I finished reading 'Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?' I wanted to take stock of the Winterson canon."
Audrey BilgerApr 20, 2012
The Questionnaire: Matthew Zapruder
The QuestionnaireApr 19, 2012
Death and the Library
I held my father's copy of Mein Kampf in my hand wondering if it should be kept, donated, or set on fire in the backyard.
Seth GreenlandApr 19, 2012
The Questionnaire: Emily Green
The QuestionnaireApr 19, 2012
Carolyn Kellogg
On becoming and being a critic.
LARB MinifilmsApr 18, 2012
All Hail the Chairmen: Jonathan Olivares's "Taxonomy of Office Chairs"
Why not make yourself comfortable while you're working your way to the top?
Apr 18, 2012
Abnegation
Self-deprecation, and dogs and love.
Maria BustillosApr 18, 2012
The Death of the Hollywood Novel
Apr 18, 2012
Doors Closing Slowly: Derek Raymond’s Factory Novels
He began to work on an entirely new kind of novel, one that would focus more on the victims of violent crime than on its perpetrators.
Patrick MillikinApr 18, 2012
Rivers of Blood: On Guillermo Fernández García
On the murder of the poet and translator Guillermo Fernández Garcia.
Dolores DorantesApr 18, 2012
You Say the Swimming Pool’s Half Empty, I Say the Swimming Pool’s Half Full
Swimming pools, movie stars.
Geoff NicholsonApr 18, 2012
Paradigms Regained
One thing is not said often enough: Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, like all great books, is a work of passion, and a passio
Ian HackingApr 18, 2012
History of the Present
I, Fatty and Permanent Midnight
Apr 18, 2012