Articles by Jacob Lambert
July 21, 2010
A Report on the Vonnegut Effect 8
Despite Breakfast of Champions’ outraged pessimism, it was quite a lot of fun. I needed more.
June 30, 2010
Not-Reading Is Fundamental 10
In the past, I’d immediately swap the book I’d just read for a new one, a literary chain-smoker. But now I take my time.
June 25, 2010
Why We Wu 6
More than any other modern act—with the exceptions, perhaps, of Miles Davis and B.B. King—The Wu Tang Clan has laid claim to nearly every corner of its genre.
May 27, 2010
On Tetris 5
Like ping-pong or fucking, the game demands a deep focus that must be both maintained and ignored; once you realize what you’re doing, you’re done.
May 18, 2010
The Jagged Arc: Wilson by Dan Clowes 0
The cartoons pass and the narrative builds, and all the while, so does a sense that all this pain, all this unfiltered hate, had better be worth it—for this pathetic character and for ourselves.
April 29, 2010
Are Picture Books Leading Our Children Astray? 17
It’s now widely believed that Outbreak, the 1995 Dustin Hoffman Ebola thriller, was at least partially inspired by Caps For Sale.
