Posts by author
Anisse Gross
-
Letters to Fictional Characters
To Humbert Humbert of Nabokov’s Lolita: “Hey Humbert, How’s jail? I hope it’s as bad as they make it out to be in those undercover exposes. I mean, I really hope you’re suffering, I want to be clear on that from…
-
Every Person In New York
Woman at Taco Bell on 14th Street. Man Sleeping on a bench in Madison Square Park, May 30, 2010. He is wearing 3-D Movie Theatre Glasses. Lewis Lapham. Three people out of the current 8,008,278 people of New York City.…
-
The Rumpus Review of Littlerock
If films were fighters, Mike Ott’s second offering, Littlerock, would weigh in at 123 minutes, placing it in the featherweight division, a deft, gentle movie, lithe and light during its two hours in the ring. Not to suggest that it’s diminutive —…
-
Teenagers on Salinger
We keep reading tributes to Salinger by famous authors or, more worth noting, written by adults. But what about teenagers, the main readership of Catcher in the Rye? Over at The New York Times’ Room for Debate a discussion panel…
-
Amanda F’n Palmer Goes to the Golden Globes
It might be new news or old news to you, but Amanda Palmer is engaged to Neil Gaiman, and because Coraline (based on Gaiman’s book) was nominated for best animated feature, Amanda Palmer ended up walking the red carpet at…
-
Writers Remember Salinger
As we mentioned earlier this morning, Dave Eggers, arguably one of the most actively engaged and socially involved writers (almost the living antithesis of Salinger) paid tribute to Salinger for The New Yorker, probing the question of why Salinger retreated…
-
Cuba Pays for Sex Change Operations
Cuba’s progressing fast when it comes to recognizing the rights of transgendered peoples. First the ban was lifted on sex-change operations in 2007, and now not only are the surgeries being performed in Cuba, they’re being paid for under the…
-
The Not Top Ten Films of 2009
The first weeks of 2010 are inevitably flooded with top ten lists of 2009, because people apparently can’t live without them. But maybe instead of reading the same top ten lists, we could have interesting lists of overlooked, underrated, left…
-
China Created a Small Black Hole and We Bombed the Moon
Harper’s has a condensed, slightly humorous (not funny haha) and downright offputting review of 2009. From “Scientists in San Diego made a robot head study itself in a mirror until it learned to smile” to learning that the actual Man…
-
Your DFW Fix
It seems that people will only grow to love David Foster Wallace more as the years go on. It’s what usually happens when you can’t get someone anymore. Here’s a great link to more DFW morsels from Lincoln Michel over…
-
The Catchphrase of the Decade is…
Ron Rosenbaum over at Slate, has been chronicling catchphrases for a while, and now at the dawn of 2010, he picks the catchphrase of the decade, and also does away with the awful ones by “throwing them under the bus.”…
-
What to Read
Laura Miller, staff writer at Salon as well as a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review, has come out with a new feature called What to Read. Salon’s not doing away with it’s exceptional book coverage, from…