Category: Literature
Is It Impossible for Modern Writers to be Considered Intellectual?
While writers bear a certain amount of self-deprecation, self-doubt and self-loathing, they also possess a fair amount of ego. After all, what could be more [Read More…]
John Waters’ Role Models Should Be Yours Too
Not everyone sees John Waters as an exemplary role model. But that doesn’t mean his own personal role models aren’t worth emulating in certain respects. [Read More…]
Joan Didion’s Guide to Leaving New York Gets the Ultimate Homage with “Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York”
There is a feeling you get when you move to New York that can never be recaptured by any other experience in your life. It [Read More…]
Does Tama Janowitz’s Slaves of New York Still Resonate in Modern New York?
Tama Janowitz, a member of the literary Brat Pack crème de la crème, released the novel, Slaves of New York, in 1986. A selection of intertwining stories, [Read More…]
Wayne Kostenbaum Talks Briefly About the 80s in My 1980s
If your eye was caught by the cover of Wayne Kostenbaum’s My 1980s and you automatically assumed it had to be about said decade, there’s [Read More…]
Remaking The Bell Jar: Kate Zambreno’s Green Girl
The analogies between The Bell Jar and Green Girl are undeniable. To start from an obvious standpoint, you have the fact that the main character [Read More…]
Gypsy Rose Lee: One of the Greatest Female Authors of the 20th Century
It is often repeated in writers’ workshops throughout America that you should write what you know. And who did that better than the illustrious Gypsy [Read More…]
J.D. Salinger and New Year’s Day
On what would have been J.D. Salinger’s 94th birthday, there is something unusual in the air. The fact that Salinger’s date of birth coincides with [Read More…]
The Purpose of what purpose did i serve in your life
The twenty-first century thus far has exhibited something of a paradigm shift in what constitutes literature. In the current era, publishing email and Facebook exchanges [Read More…]
