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Mikita BrottmanAbout Mikita Brottman Mikita Brottman is the author of The Solitary Vice, PopMatters' first book, published with Counterpoint Press. In her PopMatters' column, "Sub Rosa", Mikita pokes around in the margins and undergrowth of popular culture, performing autopsies on the overlooked, the esoteric, the pathological, and the arcane. By daylight, she teaches Humanities at the Maryland Institute College of Art; by night, she writes unpleasant books about cannibals and car crashes. She lives with boyfriend and bulldog in the old Belvedere hotel in Baltimore. Her website is available here Features BooksThe Solitary Vice: Has Reading Really Made You a Better Person?[20.Jun.08] :. In this third excerpt of PopMatters' first book, The Solitary Vice: Against Reading, by Mikita Brottman, Brottman tells us about the dark, pathological side of reading.  BooksThe Solitary Vice: You Can Always Watch the Movie, Instead[14.May.08] :. In this second excerpt of PopMatters' first book, The Solitary Vice: Against Reading, Mikita Brottman suggests an easy out when you don’t want to read the book.  BooksThe Solitary Vice: Remove the 'Guilt' from 'Guilty Pleasures'[7.Apr.08] :. PopMatters unveils its first book, The Solitary Vice: Against Reading, by Mikita Brottman, in this first excerpt and author interview. Brottman wonders, Just what's so great about reading, anyway?  BooksIn Print and In Conversation: Rocco Versaci[21.Mar.08] :. Surprising though it may be to PopMatters readers, there are those who still feel that a taste for comic books is a sign of arrested development, or wasted youth. Columns Sub RosaSurton Girls[28.May.08] :. The girls collected in Surton's photographs evoke butterflies pinned to a board in the dusty attic of a lonely lepidopterist.  Sub RosaE-mails from the Dead[6.May.08] :. Like a cyber séance, of sorts, these Internet services have become a means for the dead to speak to the living.  Sub RosaCustomer Feedback[26.Mar.08] :. Some Amazon buyers serve as "culture jammers", expressing their contempt for advertisers through simple acts of creative customer feedback.  Sub RosaPlastic Fantastic[19.Feb.08] :. If you’re not shocked by the idea of mounting a dead animal’s head on the wall, why should you be shocked by Body Worlds 2?  Sub RosaWhen Pets are Past Their Prime[6.Feb.08] :. Retirement homes for elderly herbivores and posthumous plans for your pet should you kick the proverbial bucket of water, first. Sub Rosa Dyke-AlikesSub Rosa One Man’s Trash…Sub Rosa The Good, the Ugly, and the Simply AwfulSub Rosa Dinners of the DamnedSub Rosa The Real McCoySub Rosa Xtreme Zoo BabiesSub Rosa Stars in our PiesSub Rosa Shit HappensSub Rosa Abandoning the FortSub Rosa Side Show SuckersSub Rosa Art HistorySub Rosa Mein KatSub Rosa Mixed PicklesReviewsPopMatters Pick BooksSway by Zachary Lazar[19.Mar.08] :. Reading this book is like taking a ride a dark, scary ghost train. Only in retrospect can you look back and see where you’ve been.  BooksThe Executioners Bible by Steve Fielding[31.Jan.08] :. Hanging people is a messy business, and most of those in the trade, however eager they may have been to take the job at first, before long would be traumatized by the scenes they were forced to witness and take part in.  BooksSleaze Artists by Jeffrey Sconce[3.Jan.08] :. It must surely be daunting for any young film scholar with an interest in trash to come face to face with the volume of academic work that’s been done on once-disreputable movies. PopMatters Pick BooksThe Gothic by Gilda Williams[12.Dec.07] :. As this volume makes clear, there's nothing new about the Gothic culture, which goes back, well, to the Goths.  BooksHotel Theory by Wayne Koestenbaum[20.Sep.07] :. An exhaustive, exhausting exploration, evisceration, analysis and autopsy of the author’s obsession with the phenomenon of the hotel, both edifice and state of mind. Books The Rough Guide to Unexplained Phenomena by Bob Rickard and John MichellBooks The Red Parts by Maggie NelsonBooks The Evolving Brain by R. Grant SteenBooks Becoming Eichmann by David CesaraniBooks Interfictions by Delia Sherman and Theodora GossBooks Tabloid Prodigy by Marlise Elizabeth KastBooks New Cultural Studies by Gary Hall and Clare Birchall [Editors]Books The End of the World As We Know It by Robert GoolrickBooks The Wow Climax by Henry JenkinsBooks FOUND Polaroids by Jason Bitner (Editor)Books Reading Like a Writer by Francine ProseBooks Freuds Wizard: by Brenda MaddoxBooks Knitting Under the Influence by Claire LaZebnikBooks What is the What by Dave EggersBooks 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel by Jane SmileyBooks Rain Village by Carolyn TurgeonBooks Not in Kansas Anymore by Christine WickerBooks Housekeeping vs. The Dirt by Nick HornbyBooks Remember Me by Lisa Takeuchi CullenBooks The Ruins by Scott SmithBlog postsConsuming ConsumablesThe Big Book of Pop Culture by Hal Niedzviecki [$24.95][30.Nov.07] :. I wish I’d had a book like this when I was a kid. Not only is it handy sized, appealing to the eye, and neatly produced, but it’s also full of projects that look like they’d be... Re:PrintThe Big Book of Pop Culture[10.Jun.07] :. Let me begin with a disclaimer: when I expressed interest in reviewing this book, I wasn't aware just how young were the "Young Artists" for whom this book is evidently intended. Niedzviecki,... |
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