Articles from December 2009
December 31, 2009 | Posted by Administrator
“One Groove’s Difference”: Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
“Maybe the Golden Fang had sailed on to its fate, gathering those who hadn’t found their way to shore deeper into whatever complications of evil, indifference, abuse, despair they needed to become even more themselves. Whoever they were. Maybe Shasta had escaped all that. Maybe she was [...]
Categories: Regular Contributor, review | 
Tags: Jeff Price, Marilynne Robinson, review, Thomas Pynchon | 
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December 21, 2009 | Posted by Administrator
by Etgar Keret
There was this guy who could walk on water. Not that that’s such a big deal. Lots of people can walk on water. They usually don’t know that because they don’t try. They don’t try because they don’t believe they can do it. In any case, that guy believed, and tried and did [...]
Categories: thoughts | Tags: Christmas, Etgar Keret, Humanity, Jesus, Lassie, The Beatles | 3 Comments »
December 14, 2009 | Posted by Administrator
In 1979, when I’m eight years old, my dad, drunk out of his gourd on Schlitz and high on crank, runs over some guy with his brand new El Camino. I don’t know this when I’m eight. I just think his car is cool. It’s cherry-red with a huge, white vector [...]
Categories: thoughts | Tags: El Camino, Flash Fiction, Jason Stout, Schlitz, Sodomy, Vehicular Homicide | 2 Comments »
December 7, 2009 | Posted by Administrator
Discussed Herein: Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem and Amateur Barbarians by Robert Cohen
“My Birds…, My Tower…”
“Frank O’Hara and Joe Brainerd, Mailer and Broyard and Krim, Jane Jacobs, Lenny Bruce, Warhol and Lou Reed, all of it, including Patti Smith and Richard Hell and Jim Carroll, poets declaring themselves rock stars before they even had [...]
Categories: Regular Contributor, review | Tags: Amateur Barbarians, Book Review, Chronic City, ellipsis, Jeff Price, Jonathan Lethem, Robert Cohen, Wakefield | 4 Comments »
December 1, 2009 | Posted by Administrator
Recently, I was reading an interview with Ann M. Martin—perhaps my secret favorite writer of all time, the woman responsible for the voice that narrated me through my childhood, both on and off the page—and, in describing her daily routine, she mentioned that she “eases into the day” by taking care of email, then settles [...]
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