Happy birthday, Tim Horvath! Celebrate by reading this Horvath fiction (with music by Rafaele Andrade), which we published last year,…
Tim Horvath’s “Literary Pillars”
The Top Five: As widely as my tastes ebb and flow, these five remain, stalwarts, five friends I want with…
I Can Read for Miles and Miles: Field Report from the Moby-Dick Marathon
Last weekend I went to the Moby-Dick marathon, an annual event in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where much of the landlubbing…
Pop-up Books: An Homage
Last week, as I was picking up some films from the library of my alma mater, the University of New…
His Light Materials: Puig, Film, and “Gruesome Tangos”
I hope some of you are reading and digging Manuel Puig’s Betrayed by Rita Hayworth. In my first post, I…
Plunging Puigward: Welcome to La Plata, Mosca
If you’ve been keeping up (or, like me, struggling to keep up) with the Big Other Book Club thus far,…
Good Old NeonLeaks: Transparency in Politics and Literature
The WikiLeaks story is dramatic on so many levels, with a character at center stage, Julian Assange, worthy of Shakespeare:…
Only a Loose Stevens Connection
I’ll be the first to admit I’m not playing with a full deck—mine’s missing the eight of clubs and the…