What is a beginning? What is an ending? What makes a particular grouping of words become a poem or a…
From the Barbaric Heart: A Story About Me and Lewis and the Late Great Island Nation of Japan
In the April, 2011, issue of Harper’s, Lewis Lapham has written an essay on Mark Twain’s Autobiography, Volume 1 of…
DIY Geek Cinema
For a long time I’ve held an ambiguous attitude toward geek culture, and ultra-fandom. On the one hand, it’s painfully…