American Fractal
Timothy Green’s debut collection of poetry, American Fractal, picks up where scientific discourse leaves off.
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Why Christopher Hitchens Doesn’t Matter
Hitchens’ new memoir Hitch-22 is a sprawling self-portrait of a name-dropper and a hanger-on.
SEX BOOK THROWDOWN #2: Porn Takes It on the Chin
Today’s book battle pits Andrea Dworkin’s Pornography: Men Possessing Women against Nadine Strossen’s Defending Pornography:
Mattaponi Queen
In this prize-winning collection of linked stories, outcasts and fuckups “dodge what dangers they can to survive in the midst of their aching loneliness.”
Listening to Leo London
If you took the love child of Dylan and Patti Smith, conceived under a full moon with Waits howling somewhere out of sight, and raised him to twenty-four in a…
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #38
THINGS FOUND UNDER MY COUCH CUSHIONS ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing things found under…
Emotional Creatures: Excess, Restraint and Deliverance in Antichrist
Lars von Trier's films are effective primarily because he is not afraid of creating complex female characters.
SMALL POTATOES:
Purpose
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The House on Salt Hay Road
With a hurricane and a world war on the horizon, Carin Clevidence’s debut novel examines a Long Island family’s attempts to stave off disintegration.
A Life Spasming with Furious Longing
The Salt Ecstasies is really just a beautiful book of poetry, filled with blindingly fierce imagery and destructively skillful writing, but it’s most importantly an honest book, its poems written…