Adapting Blood Meridian?
I just found out that James Franco is set to direct the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian which is the most violent novel I’ve ever read. So I…
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Michael Berger
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Michael Berger is a barely-published writer and book-seller living in San Francisco. He is one of the founding Corsairs of the Iron Garters Bike Club and is currently pursuing a degree in applied pataphysics. He sometimes eats oatmeal for dinner.
My Year In Books
As The Millions keeps rolling out their amazing Year In Reading series, I’d thought I’d offer my own attempt at doing justice to the books in my life, and not…
The Visual World Of W.G. Sebald
“Sebald is brilliantly visual. He makes you realize with some discomfort that you often fail to look attentively enough at what you see. Another novelist referred to the “phenomenal configuration”…
What John Ruskin Thinks Of Us
“For when we are interested in the beauty of a thing, the oftener we can see it the better; but when we are interested only by the story of a…
Vice Fiction
I haven’t followed Vice magazine in a long time. I used to pick it up at the video store, The Naked Eye in the Lower Haight back before it closed…
Sam Anderson’s Marginalia
Once more from The Millions “Year In Reading:” Sam Anderson shares his marginalia. I particularly like what he wrote in the margins of a certain Twitter-referencing page in Franzen’s Freedom:…
The Millions “A Year In Reading”
Don’t miss it! The Millions “A Year In Reading” is underway with contributions from John Banville and Lionel Shriver, among others.
Fire In My Belly
For me, having been inculcated with pictures of a bloody, naked man nailed to a tree since I was five, any discussion of obscenity, homo-eroticism or sexual violence begins with…
The Dangers Of Making Art
“To be dangerous is to remind the world of what our humanity means to us, rather than allowing everyone to settle into complacency. To challenge us to dig deeper into…
Rebecca Solnit’s Infinite City
Just to let all discriminating book-buyers know: Rebecca Solnit’s new gorgeously-illustrated and highly-collaborative book, Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas is out now at all independent bookstores.
The Millions On Creeps
Invoking theorists Helen Cixous and Avital Ronell, The Millions tackles a recent favorite of mine: The Orange Eats Creeps. (I particuarly like this turn of phrase from Ronell: “they rerouted…
Kerouac The Tragic Bro
“I first met Dean not long after Tryscha and I hooked up. I had just gotten over a wicked fucking hangover that I won’t bother to talk about, except that…