Sometimes a vagina can be more than a vagina. Sometimes it can be freedom. The ever-vigilant Nick Mamatas shared the…
For Your Consideration III – Birthday Wishes to Henry James
In the essay “In the Cage” (from Fiction and the Figures of Life), William Gass speaks about the fourth volume…
On the 15th Day of April
It’s National Poetry Month. As a result I have put together a small reading list of poetry collections you may…
Spoof of Manners in Jane Austen
I find the spoof exceptionally funny but also–and here’s the twist–entirely wrong-headed from the first. Its target: The stuffiness of…
Ignorance Is a Kind of Sickness
Have you seen Geoff Dyer’s I’m-just-thinking-out-loud-here piece: “My literary allergy,” a pseudo-contrarian response to the work of David Foster Wallace,…
The Other Culture
In my other life, I am constantly being told that Jazz and Science don’t sell, that if you put either…
The Dream of Self-Reliance: The Bee-Loud Glade, by Steve Himmer
As the first chapter of Steve Himmer’s new novel, The Bee-Loud Glade, dissolves into the second, the reader quickly realizes…
Ten Reasons I Hate Emily Giffin’s SOMETHING BORROWED (St. Martin’s Press)
Here is my deep, shameful secret: I’m addicted to drugstore paperbacks. I even sometimes fantasize about wanting to write them.…
Fanny Howe to judge 1913 Press’s First Book Contest (Any Genre)
See Fanny Howe above. Read more about her here. Find out more about 1913 Press here. And get the full…