Sleeper’s Wake
John Wraith’s penis is a neat literary device. It provides character depth and motivation, and is central to every plot twist in the book.
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On Being A Citizen Of Literature
“There’s a scene at the end of Ugrešić’s 1993 essay collection Have A Nice Day: From The Balkan War to the American Dream where the author describes an encounter that…
Are We Talking About Sex Differently?
My girlfriend is reading Henry Miller, we’re applying for food stamps and I’m having nightmares about children having died in my house. I spent the last weekend partying in Al…
The Big Book Club
There are books on the NEA’s list that I haven’t read and undoubtedly should read—but unless I’ve made a New Year’s resolution, I prefer to stumble upon my next book.
Charlie Crespo: The Last Book I Loved, Infinite Jest
After reading David Foster Wallace’s short story collection, Girl With Curious Hair, I was determined to read Infinite Jest. I found Wallace’s prose to be unlike anything I had ever…
Random Media Notes
Sam Zell, Chairman and CEO of the Tribune Company (publisher of the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times), says no newspapers can survive. (via MediaBistro) “Politico owner Robert Allbritton…
“A Man of Confused but Deep Spirituality”
On October 21st, Jack Kerouac had been dead exactly forty years. You’d be pressed to find a more quoted, misunderstood, revered, and culturally significant icon of the latter half of…
Morning Coffee
What does the internet cost around the world? Typewriter people. Walt Whitman’s levi’s commercial. Architects Journal looks at the top 5 comic book cities. Also: Paris as star map.
Letters Home
Writing by hand does remind you, primally, of what this crazy thing we do is made of. The careful spilling of ink on paper, the joints and girders of letters.…