I Am Made of Words: Zero K by Don deLillo
In Underworld, Don deLillo tried to do what John le Carré did with The Secret…
Decomposing in Real Time: Waste by Andrew F. Sullivan
There are only victims. (last line of Scott Turow’s Pleading Guilty) The modern industrial age…
Always Business, Always Personal: John Gregory Dunne’s Monster: Living Off the Big Screen
But that is the writer’s life. You write. You finish. You start over again. (Dunne,…
Having Fun Storming the Castle
There are few books better to read at Renaissance faire than As You Wish: Inconceivable…
Book: LOCKPICK PORNOGRAPHY (2005)
“I’m tired of the moral high ground. We’ve already got more than our share of…
Back to the ‘City’: Prologue
‘These novels are as difficult to put down as a dish of pistachios. The reader…
Dogma in Genetics: Zoë Heller’s ‘The Believers’
‘The challenge of modernity is to live with illusions and without becoming disillusioned.’ -Antonio Gramsci, from the opening…
I Am The Cosmos: Ben Lerner’s ’10:04′
10:04, the second novel from Ben Lerner, is decorated with a photo of the glittering NYC…
False Grit: A Trip Through ‘Galveston’
Genre fiction, whether it is mystery, horror, sci-fi, or fantasy, has often received the cold…