Recent Articles
December 11, 2009
Gonzo Film Crit at Gizmodo 0
by Emily Colette Wilkinson
At Gizmodo, the art of the Comcast movie summary. (My favorite is The Seventh Sign, though I Know Who Killed Me –an unforgettable piece of so-bad-its-good filmmaking–runs a close second.)
December 11, 2009
A Year in Reading: Maud Newton 0
by Maud Newton
Only used copies of Theodora Keogh’s books are available these days, but it’s one of my personal missions to convince someone to return her work to print.
December 11, 2009
A Year in Reading: Marco Roth 0
by Marco Roth
If literary non-fiction is actually a genre distinct from history or reportage, not just a sales category, then Georges Perec’s W. Or The Memory of Childhood, first published in the author’s native French in 1975, must be one of its foundational texts.
December 11, 2009
A Year in Reading: Kate Christensen 1
by Kate Christensen
Any outrage Coetzee evokes with his various portrayals of the treatments of animals, of blacks, of women, is achieved without raising the decibel level of his voice above the mildly conversational. Therein lies much of his narrative power.
December 10, 2009
A Year in Reading: Rick Moody 3
by Rick Moody
Is it really a novel? Or is it a prose-poem? Or is it a work of non-fiction written by deranged, and eccentric genius somewhere out in the deep woods of the South, while slapping a mosquitoes and lamenting, generally, a life lived on the outside?
December 10, 2009
E-book Release Delays 0
by Sonya Chung
An article in the Wall Street Journal about the third publishing house — HarperCollins, who joined Simon & Schuster and Hachette — to delay e-book publication of new (hardcover) titles. The debate over timing and pricing of new-release e-books (@$9.99) continues.
