Would that there were no other kind. Sara Levine, author of the fantastic Treasure Island!!!, was interviewed in the…
Why Blockbusters Don’t Exist
The problem with giving your audience what they want is that they don’t know what they want. vs. vs. (“Freebird!”)…
The North American Innovation Crash of 1993
The Ombudsman of the Washington Post has this to say about “innovation”: “I’m wondering, and readers are too, whether…
Outside the Tradition
“Nothing in your education or experience can have prepared you for this film: Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain.” Presumably, nearly…
A Year of Reading
I read 203 books in 2011, or, on average, a little more than one book every two days. You…
Dalkey Archive Press
Until I make my pilgrimage to Champaign, this realtor-walkthrough video of Dalkey Archive’s warehouse (squired by founder John O’Brien,…
That Entrepreneurial Spirit
[Video shamelessly stolen from Shane Jones’s Facebook feed] Of course sometimes the hippie with his feet up on the desk…
Acquiring the Superfluous
[Alexander Theroux’s essay “Theroux Metaphrastes” was published as an appendix to David R. Godine’s 1975 edition of Theroux’s 1972 novel,…
