Articles by Lydia Kiesling
November 25, 2009
Modern Library Revue: #42 Deliverance 11
The story is told in a self-consciously poetic way, as if the author wrote it while sitting behind a duck blind with a camouflaged typewriter, looking at a picture of Walt Whitman and listening to Wagner.
November 20, 2009
Bad Sex in Fiction 0
Bad sex in fiction! Here are your excerpts from Literary Review‘s annual contest.
November 12, 2009
They Really Get Me 0
For an invigorating jolt of proletarian/genetic bitterness, The New York Times has a “New Victorian” fashion slide show, featuring a selection of gentlemen with admirable bone structure, all in thousand-dollar cutaway coats and plaids and things.
November 6, 2009
One Fast Move Or I’m Gone: A Review 5
The promise of this foul enterprise lurked in every high school year book page, in every reference to the mad ones and the roman candles and the burning sensation.
October 27, 2009
Yes. 1
Your dandruff falls like the fixtures within a scenic railway passing through a thousand bearded rainbows… Compliment courtesy of the Surrealist Compliment Generator! (Via.)
October 25, 2009
It’s Not Fair 1
The Critterati pets-in-literary-garb contest ends at midnight tonight! You can view a gallery of the submissions as they appear, and some of them are phenomenal. I especially like Humbert Humbert. I don’t know how these people got their animals to cooperate (drugs, probably). Big Ed and Nadine, aged six months, made it quite clear that [...]
