Category: Literature
Ada, Or Ardor: Literature’s Great Incest Story
Just as film has incestuous works of art in the likes of The Dreamers and Girl, Interrupted and television has it in Arrested Development, Ada, [Read More…]
Sheila Heti Asks How Should A Person Be?, Doesn’t Quite Answer Question
The acclaimed debut novel of Sheila Heti, How Should A Person Be? asks a bold, sweeping question that never really gets answered by the time [Read More…]
Surprisingly, The Rape Scene Being Altered From Future Editions of Not That Kind of Girl Is Not the One Involving Lena Dunham’s Sister
In the wake of Lena Dunham’s brush with controversy after someone fully read her book and decided to point out an inappropriate, to say the [Read More…]
Sacramento Girl: Joan Didion Turns 80
On the heels of Joan Didion’s nephew, Griffin Dunne, raising well over the amount of his Kickstarter goal of $80,000 to make a documentary about [Read More…]
Zelda Fitzgerald: The Ideal Tumblrer
Tumblr is very much the type of thing that Zelda Fitzgerald could have used during her era of oppression as an aspiring writer. Considered an [Read More…]
Amores Perros & 2666: Showcasing Mexico At Its Modern Worst
Although Alejandro González Iñárritu’s 2000 film Amores Perros is not an epic piece of literature in the same impressively expansive vein as Roberto Bolaño’s 2004 [Read More…]
In Love With In Love
Alfred Hayes is one of those great writers that everyone should know about, but somehow tends to fall by the wayside when compared to other [Read More…]
The Thematic Parallels Between Ben Lerner and Tao Lin
Although frequently compared to some sort of modern day David Foster Wallace (a phrase that sounds somewhat incongruous considering DFW was in his prime in [Read More…]
Ghoulish Literary Offerings Just In Time for All Hallow’s Eve
The month of October is the ideal time to catch up on one’s sinister reading material. From the classic cuts to the more contemporary and/or [Read More…]
Frankly, Fran
The sharp wit and unremitting acerbicism of Fran Lebowitz has continued to enlighten readers decades after she stopped publishing anything new. Her frankness and sharp [Read More…]
