Tuesday, July 24 2007
Digesting The Raw Shark Texts
Words, these fundaments of culture and personal expression, these phonic constructions, which are so closely linked to human emotion and identity, have a profound destructive capacity.
Tuesday, June 26 2007
Attention. Deficit. Disorder.
Brad Listi's new novel realistically shows how Gen Xers perceive the world: it's full of random information that doesn't add up to an understanding of what life is all about.
Tuesday, May 15 2007
A Moral Pornographer?
Can pornographic literature impart a lesson in morality? Author Tamara Faith Berger believes it can.
Tuesday, April 17 2007
Read Rage
Moving others to constructive action, whether by persuasive or expository means, as Gutkind has done with Rage and Reconciliation, is the hallmark of socially-engaged literature.
Wednesday, March 21 2007
Palahniuk’s Fight Club Punch: We Never See It Coming
With Fight Club, whether he intended to or not, Palahniuk has shown us that fascism can be created right before our eyes, almost invisibly, and we won’t even see it happening.
