February 2012
1 post
“As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious...”
– Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
December 2011
3 posts
“He’d enter the house and push past the offer of what he called the worst...”
– David Frum
1 tag
November 2011
1 post
October 2011
6 posts
“Civilization is in a sense a matter of feeling shame in the appropriate places.”
– Charles Taylor
“Ultimately, the contradiction between our economic and ecological anxieties may...”
– Growth Outgrown (N+1)
“I just think of it as me trying to have as much fun as possible and be as...”
– Will Oldham
2 tags
September 2011
1 post
“First, for all the breathless headlines from the IMF/World Bank meetings in...”
– The Economist
Gulp.
July 2011
1 post
April 2011
7 posts
“In many ways, today’s rap landscape looks like the exact inverse of the world...”
– The Fader
The War on Drugs — Buenos Aires Beach
“Gunter, a retired journalist who edited a string of gay porn magazines...”
– A Lifetime at the Ansonia
March 2011
1 post
February 2011
6 posts
“They depended, for their force, on a body-memory of those early cravings for...”
– Dan Chiasson’s review of the Keith Richards’ memoir is good stuff. My favorite sections of the book were the early chapters describing Richards’ childhood and blues apprenticeship during a time when music was still a physical thing that had to be searched for and found in order to...
“And even as these contemporary importunings swamp our perception, what can...”
– Cynthia Ozick on Saul Bellow (TNR)
“Martin Scorsese’s film The Last Waltz is practically The Robbie Robertson Show;...”
– Rattle and dumb: 13 rock movies that make their subjects look like dicks
January 2011
4 posts
“Our problems as a country cannot, of course, be reduced to our problems as...”
– Elizabeth Kolbert
“These heckling strophes drip with spite, but spite is often the vehicle of...”
– Sam Tanenhaus
“His woman kept wanting to come over, but he was all busy with the beats. Willy...”
– Rachel B. Glaser, “Fat Bird Makes a Beat”
There should be more short fiction about rapping.
December 2010
5 posts
“HFM: People talk about the Paulson mortgage trades. But if there had been more...”
– The Return of HFM
A Facebook story: A mother's joy and a family's... →
Literature in the genre of Facebook.
WatchGives a good interview
October 2010
2 posts
“Accommodation is survival at the most basic level, although it is also lethal to...”
– Lorrie Moore on The Wire
September 2010
3 posts
Greetings from Mississippi →
FYI, I am helping with this. Click over there for a good time and a chance to learn something neat about the Magnolia state.
"The Cancer Walk" →
My short story “The Cancer Walk” is on Monkeybicycle.net today.
August 2010
3 posts
July 2010
1 post
February 2010
1 post
January 2010
2 posts
“There is no riddle of existence that cannot be resolved, or robbed of its sting,...”
– Leon Wieseltier
"How It Is" by Roxane Gay (Wigleaf) →
December 2009
1 post
“So how do I ask my brother if he murdered the hitchhiker?”
– Dear Prudence
November 2009
10 posts
