There’s a new GrubHub ad in my subway stop: In case you can’t quite make it out, the freakishly anthropomorphic…
In Which I Apologize for Having to Talk about the Nazis
When I did an image-search for “sublime,” literally all I got for 16 pages were promo pics of the band…
The Sot-Weed Factor: A Duet, Part III
The third installment wherein our Hero & Heroine contemplate, to the Best of their Feeble Abilities, the NOVEL’S conclusion, its…
A Sudden Huge Overpowering Nostalgia for Libraries
The other day, Matt Bell posted a nice status update about a childhood library experience, and it quickly become clear…
I Shot the Moon, Calamari Press, 27 / 41, Robert Lopez’s PART OF THE WORLD
Click through to read the full review of Robert Lopez’s PART OF THE WORLD, the twenty-seventh in this full-press review…
With one bound
On finding himself thus accidentally free, Sullivan’s only thought was to get as far as he could from Newgate Prison…
Thoughtcast Features Helen Vendler on Emily Dickinson
For those of you participating in (or following the discussion on) the Big Other book club, we’re going to be…
Will Alexander’s Exobiology As Goddess: A Word-Hoard
Will Alexander’s Exobiology As Goddess is a book-length paean to Solea of the Simooms, an invented divinity—is there any other…
#Author Fail 16: Wendy Walker
Good riddance, failures. Today ends this column, at least in weekly form, which for the 15 weeks past has detailed…
Other Worlds
That we live in different worlds was brought starkly home to me earlier this summer when I read, in succession,…