June 25, 2010 | Posted by Administrator
On the final day of Marina Abramović’s performance at MoMA, “The Artist Is Present,” somebody tossed a manuscript from an upper balcony. Its pages peeled apart in falling, fluttering to the floor like so much confetti. One Memorial Day attendee called the sight beautiful. Inspection of a fallen page revealed font too [...]
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Tags: Charles Baxter, Chatroulette, Di Fara Pizza, Jeff Price, Marina Abramović | 
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March 31, 2010 | Posted by Administrator
“To Console The Hopeless Self”: Castle by J. Robert Lennon
“‘Out!’ I said. I suppose I was shouting. My sister stood up, trembling, and I must admit that I expected her familiar sneer to have taken its usual place on her face. But all I could find there was unhappiness and fear. Fear [...]
Categories: Regular Contributor, review | Tags: Book Reviews, Charles Baxter, J. Robert Lennon, Jeff Price, Literary Criticism | No Comments »
March 4, 2010 | Posted by Administrator
“Roisterous Calliope”: Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower
“I got an understanding of how terrible love can be. You wish you hated those people, your wife and children, because you know the things the world will do to them, because you have done some of those things yourself. It’s crazy-making, yet you cling to [...]
Categories: Regular Contributor, review | Tags: Christopher Buckley, Jeff Price, review, Wells Tower | 1 Comment »
February 5, 2010 | Posted by Administrator
All fiction was about the same thing to Frank Wilder: the crime of his never having been published. Once a reader advanced beyond the great divide of 1945 to enter the furious stew of the modern moment, any novel, Frank felt, was fair game to be scorned. He thought often on the direction of American [...]
Categories: Regular Contributor, story | Tags: fiction, Jeff Price, Pigeons | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
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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 »
October 16, 2009 | Posted by Administrator
“Forget the self-indulgent quest for happiness or self-knowledge associated with Byronic heroes” relays the The Longman Anthology of British Literature, in paraphrase of a warning once delivered by Thomas Carlyle, “strive instead to improve society and practice greater artistic control; know your work and do it.” Here is the conflict that inhabits the [...]
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October 5, 2009 | Posted by Administrator
“A market needed no longer be run by the Invisible Hand, but now could create itself—its own logic, momentum, style, from inside. Putting the control inside was ratifying what de facto had happened—that you had dispensed with God. But you had taken on a greater, and more harmful, illusion. The illusion of control. That A [...]
Categories: Regular Contributor, thoughts | Tags: Bob Dylan, conspiracy theories, Gravity's Rainbow, Inherent Vice, Jeff Price, paranoia, Richard Fariña, Thomas Pynchon | 2 Comments »
