Recent Articles
January 30, 2012
On Broken and Repaired Circuits 0
by Nick Moran
Another year, another year of Full Stop Features, and Peter Nowogrodzki is starting things off with a bang. In a thorough and engaging review, Nowogrodzki dives into Tan Lin’s miniature book The Patio and the Index.
January 30, 2012
Joseph Roth’s Letters 0
by Nick Moran
“Among the 457 letters in Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters, there is not one love letter,” begins Stefany Anne Goldberg’s review of the author’s collected–and often outright misanthropic–correspondence.
January 30, 2012
Recession, Eh? Not Up Here 0
by Nick Moran
The oil boom occurring in North Dakota, Montana, and Canada’s Bakken Formation is so frantic right now that ND’s unemployment rate is only 3.4%, the lowest in the nation. “Hiring is so frantic,” writes Business Week‘s Bryan Gruley, “the McDonald’s in Dickinson [North Dakota] is offering $300 signing bonuses.”
January 30, 2012
Nine Stories, 16 Years in the Making: Post-40 Bloomer Daniel Orozco 2
by Sonya Chung
Orientation is not about “alienation,” modern-day or otherwise, nor about the effects of a particular cultural transition or economic decline; it’s about loneliness. About the awful, persistent distance between you and me, between me and me, between each of us and the spiritual-whatever in the universe; all of which keeps us wondering what the hell this life is about, and how we will survive it. This seems an important distinction to me, and what has allowed Orozco’s work – some of it 16 years-old – to debut with full emotional resonance.
January 28, 2012
Movie Poster Marketing Philosophy 1
by Nick Moran
Have you ever wondered why so many movie posters employ the “tilting horizon” effect? One marketer is here to explain why. Now, if only someone could explain why no movie posters are original anymore…
January 28, 2012
“Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.” 1
by Nick Moran
Recommended weekend reading: Walker Percy’s “Bourbon, Neat.”
