The Animals Die: On Reading Joy Williams
It might be a moment anyone of us has already missed. For all we know, we’re dead right now. Maybe this is it.
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Posts by: Conner Habib
Me and Mr Booker by Cory Taylor
Though left, by the author, to our own devices, I suspect that any reader venturing into Cory Taylor’s novel of intergenerational love will find his or her direction quite early on, when its sixteen year-old protagonist, Martha, abruptly describes licking her twice-her-age lover’s balls, “the way he liked me to.”
...moreBy the Time You’ve Seen It, It’s Too Late
Our best shot at understanding the foundation of obscenity law is through watching Sam Raimi’s 1981 horror film, The Evil Dead. In it, a group of (who else?) students stay (where else?) at a cabin in the woods. Amidst the jokes and sexual tension, they uncover a book of demonic spells and rites.
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