Patriotic Obscenity: Aaron Poochigian and the Comedy of Aristophanes
Mark Haskell Smith talks Athenian rudeness with Aaron Poochigian, translator of “Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly.”...
Mark Haskell Smith talks Athenian rudeness with Aaron Poochigian, translator of “Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly.”...
Let us embrace sensuality: to gush, to splatter, to be enthused....
Let us embrace sensuality: to gush, to splatter, to be enthused....
Dhaka-based author Saad Z. Hossain ambles around Los Angeles with local author Mark Haskell Smith as they talk about writing in their respective cities....
Michael Paterniti falls in love with a cheese, or rather with the idea of this cheese, because he goes for years without tasting the creamy insides of his beloved queso....
DEBORAH LEVY’S NEW BOOK Swimming Home is constructed like a play — with a central stage and a cast of characters, and it unfolds like a drama in hot short vignettes — but it reads like a novel, and Levy jumps in ...
Mark Haskell Smith on the flawlessness of David Mitchell....
"The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future" is an experiment not in terror and not necessarily Dickensian....
A shotgun blast of multitentacled musings, it splatters the author's obsessions across the cultural landscape...
The book is so unrelentingly erotic and explicit that it could, if you're not careful, cause chafing....