New Fiction is Psychic Occupation Fiction—or more generally, longform narrative text—has long been the handyman of culture, serving whatever functions…
Newfound Footage from Stephen Elliott’s Shining Postscript and the Politics of Reading “Adrien Brody”
“It never ceases to startle me that a brilliant thinker can be such a bad writer. It challenges some of…
Marie Calloway, My Lover (Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Just Love Tao Lin)
I recently wrote an article about failure. The text received moderate attention. I was glad about that. I like attention.…
Our Natural Bent for Destruction and the Rights to Failure
“Is there an art that is dangerous? Yes. It is that art which upsets the conditions of life.”–Charles Baudelaire. What…
The Semiotics of GrubHub
For a year or so now I’ve been noticing GrubHub ads: …deliberately crude post-South Park pieces reminiscent of Tao Lin’s…
Seventeen Ways of Criticizing Inception (AKA, All Knowledge Isn’t Equal)
[This can be considered a response to this post, and its comments thread.] 1. You’ve just become the fiction editor…