All Essays

• After the Flood: Old New York Catches Up with the Anthropocene

  On realizing a favorite cultural nightmare: the destruction of NYC

  Nov 24, 2012

• Barbarism in Cultured Soil: Rushdie’s Great Pakistani Novel

  On 'Shame,' Salman Rushdie's great "forgotten" novel

  Nov 23, 2012

• A Three Act Journey in the Land of the Screenwriting Gurus

  The education of a screenwriter

  Nov 21, 2012
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  James Ellroy on his latest novella.

  L.A. is where I come back to when women divorce me.

  Nov 21, 2012
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  New Girl & The Mindy Project: Thanksgiving Special

  Jane HuNov 21, 2012
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  Steve Erickson: three quick questions

  Nov 20, 2012
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  Privatizing Paradise in the Murder Capital of the World

  James McGirkNov 18, 2012
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  Anthony Burgess Answers Two Questions

  Jonathan LethemNov 17, 2012
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  New Girl & The Mindy Project: The Gender Games

  Leading Ladies?

  Jane Hu, Lili Loofbourow, Phillip MaciakNov 16, 2012

• Philosophy as an Art of Living

  Nov 14, 2012

• At the Edge of the Screen: Greil Marcus Interviews David Thomson

  Nov 14, 2012
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  Jack Gilbert, 1925 - 2012

  ...the hard-hooks that fold you down to your knees...

  Juan Felipe HerreraNov 14, 2012
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  The Puck Stops Here: A Hockey Lit Survey

  David DavisNov 11, 2012

• YA Fiction and the End of Boys

  Nov 8, 2012
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  In Defense of Data: Responses to Stephen Marche’s “Literature Is not Data”

  Two rebuttals to 'Literature is not Data: Against Digital Humanities'

  Holger S. Syme, Scott SeliskerNov 5, 2012
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  The Gorey Details

  The joy of Edward Gorey's macabre musings

  Jillian SteinhauerOct 31, 2012