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Poetics (Penguin Classics) (Paperback)

by Aristotle

Friday Night Fumble: When Mediocre TV Masquerades as High Art 41

Friday Night Lights is bad television. And if it is art, then it is art that is purposefully misleading, which is art of the worst kind. Something is truly rotten in the state of Texas.

Oil Plumes and White Noise: On Rereading DeLillo 1

We are in a situation similar to the one Delillo lays out in White Noise: things are bad, danger is lurking, but we don’t know its full extent. Our exposure has been consummate, and fatal for the health and economic stability of many, but the final tally is not yet in.

Decompensate Your Way To Better Fiction 2

I’ve been working the last two years on my first novel, which has certain elements of autobiography to it, and in that time I can’t help but notice a certain decline in the indicators of good mental health.