Quick Hits
March 15, 2011
Exclusive: The First Lines of David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King 25
by C. Max Magee
The book’s lyrical opening sentence may be familiar to Wallace completists.
February 3, 2011
Ismail Kadare and the Girl in the Bridge 2
by Henriette Lazaridis Power
When I was a child traveling to my family’s ancestral home in Northern Greece, we would always come to a point in the road where the left went north to Albania and the right went northeast into the Pindus mountains.
January 31, 2011
Je est un autre: David Wojnarowicz’s Rimbaud in New York 4
by Anne K. Yoder
Wojnarowicz was deeply aware of the trajectory he shared with the youthful and precocious Rimbaud.
January 28, 2011
Lisbeth Salander, The Early Years: Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Longstocking 7
by Emily Colette Wilkinson
Pippi Longstocking never quite breaks the laws of physics, but she is an impossible creature, a fantasy of empowerment: rich, self-confident, unnaturally strong, perpetually delighted, never compromising, never defeated.
January 27, 2011
In Praise of Literary Reports 2
by Jessica Francis Kane
Have we already lost interest in the Gulf oil spill, or is it possible that the report itself is to blame for our fading interest?
January 10, 2011
In Which the Author Recalls Reading Huck Finn As a Child 2
by C. Max Magee
I was walking down the stairs with the book in hand because, though a fairly precocious young reader, I’d come across a word I’d never seen before.
