The first rule of being a good and decent human being is to treat others with respect and kindness and…
Any Other Completists Out There?
I received some astonished looks the other day when I mentioned that I was in the middle of reading Robert…
Stat & Astonished
As a fiction writer — primarily — I think a lot about imaginative literature and how it fits, nowadays, in…
Down With Lindsay Hunter
Lindsay Hunter’s debut collection, Daddy’s will kick you right in the nads. It’s unrelenting, unabashed set of stories will surprise…
David Foster Wallace, on Television, on Television as the Dominant
I’m very fond of quoting from Roman Jakobson’s 1935 essay “The Dominant”. Lately I’ve been thinking about this passage in…
The Midnight’s Marsupium Defacement Project III: (Eric Elshtain & J.A. Tyler)
I’m happy to present the latest installment of defacements/refacements of Midnight’s Marsupium: Eric Elshtain’s “er_aced _plan_” of wild cross-outs and…