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The Second Coming of Steampunk: An Interview with Ann and Jeff VanderMeerOriginally a literary movement that mashed cyberpunk-style themes with speculative rewritings of Victorian culture, steampunk is now equally a subculture devoted to repurposing mass-market consumer products into gloriously obsessive idiosyncratic designs. [11 September 2008] Michel Faber’s Fantasies"My fiction should make the reader want to grab some of these characters and shout, 'No, no, can't you see it's not LIKE that?!'" [1 November 2007] Long Zoom: Interview with Steven Johnson"My editor said, 'Yeah, it's like Emergence if the slime molds started killing people in chapter four.' And that became my mantra as I was writing it: 'Just think Emergence with killer slime molds and you're golden.'" PopMatters talks to Ghost Map author, Steven Johnson. [6 April 2007] Reviews
The TreatmentFour forms of love: a teacher's love for his students, a son's love for his father, a man's search for a sexual partner, and an analysand's love for his analyst. [17 January 2008] 
The Iron Whim by Darren Wershler-HenryDarren Wershler-Henry's The Iron Whim is less a history of typewriting than a history of its image. [4 December 2007] 
Count DraculaThis is a must-own for Dracula fans, lovers of Halloween, and admirers of Victorian fiction; virtually anyone will find something to enjoy in it. [31 October 2007] 
The Man Who Melted by Jack DannJack Dann has created a post-apocalyptic world in which Raymond Mantle is searching for the memory of his lost wife. The search for her turns out to be a search for the relationship between memory and desire. [3 October 2007] 
An Arsonists Guide to Writers Homes in New England by Brock ClarkeClarke's book ought to make us think about the stories we tell ourselves to keep the howling demons at bay and, hopefully, to laugh honestly at them for what they really are. [24 September 2007] 
With Speed and Violence by Fred PearceIn alarming times, being an alarmist makes you right ... [24 July 2007] 
Otherwise Normal People by Aurelia C. ScottIt turns out that when Gertude Stein said, "A rose is a rose is a rose," she was lying. [12 July 2007] 
The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn Iggulden and Hal IgguldenIf the two iconic Toms of Anglo-American boyhood -- Tom Sawyer and Tom Brown -- pooled their expertise, the result might resemble The Dangerous Book for Boys. [3 July 2007] 
Edmund and Rosemary Go to Hell by Bruce Eric KaplanNo one wants to see BEK turn into Lynn Johnston. [14 June 2007] 
Devils in the Sugar Shop by Timothy SchaffertAshley herself is a kind of Mrs. Dalloway-manqué, or would be if Mrs. Dalloway wore Concrete Blonde t-shirts. [17 May 2007] 
Doing Nothing by Tom LutzLutz's book is charming and graceful, long on anecdote and telling details, if perhaps short on coherent story or even organizing principle. [9 May 2007] 
Smartbomb by Heather Chaplin and Aaron RubyWhile one could argue that games have gone mainstream, one could apparently also argue that Americans have just decided to do what feels good, regardless of the consequences. [4 May 2007] 
Boomsday by Christopher BuckleyAgainst such a backdrop, it must be unfathomably difficult to develop ideas and plots that remain wholly satirical, rather than lapsing into mere realism. [30 April 2007] 
Riddled with Life by Marlene Zuk[Zuk] points out, males in general owe their existence to disease. [3 April 2007] 
Working Stiff by Grant StoddardLurking beneath the details of sploshing and the etiquette of pants-optional bridge is a straightforward memoir about a small-town boy moving to the big city. [19 March 2007] 
Survival of the Sickest by Dr. Sharon Moalem with Jonathan PrinceOutside of the fantasies of House, identifying yourself as a "medical maverick" is usually a signal of quackery. [15 March 2007] 
The Lazy Boys by Carl ShukerBy the bottom of the page, he's pissed in another sense, too, as his anger and embarrassment about the accident in the toilet lead him to lash out at a woman. [5 March 2007] 
The Perfect Thing by Steven LevyLevy does not propose that we consider the iPod to be a perfect or ideal thing; rather, he begins from the premise that the cultural marketplace has already rendered this verdict. [27 February 2007] 
The Rhythm of the Road by Albyn Leah HallThe tragedy of music, on the evidence of The Rhythm of the Road is the way it lends flesh to powerful escapist fantasies, which for some people prove more appealing than the real world. [19 February 2007] 
Bee Thousand by Marc WoodworthSimultaneously a mythologizing and de-mythologizing book, Bee Thousand demonstrates yet again the power of Faulkner's claim that "the past isn't even past." [14 February 2007] 
My Reality Check Bounced! by Jason Ryan DorseyDorsey has never met a cliché he can't embrace. [5 February 2007] 
Words That Work by Dr. Frank LuntzTotalitarian abuses of language are called Orwellian to honor the man who gave us the diagnostic tools to fight it, not because anyone believes Orwell cherished Stalinist obscurantism. [23 January 2007] 
Song of the Crow by Layne MaheuWhat makes the novel appealing, though, is less the novel's dogma than its ability to conjure a world orientated around song, flight, and roosts, and its "strange pity" for human and crow alike. [9 January 2007] 
Exile by Richard North PattersonIn order to assess Patterson's work, then, it might be time to give up the label of "legal thriller," and reach back to an earlier genre: the so-called "social problem novel." [2 January 2007] 
Golem Song by Marc EstrinAlan Krieger, self-styled arbiter of Jewish identity, is a charming monster -- omnivorous reader with apparently perfect recall, consumer of White Castle burgers and Reddi-Wip, racist, paranoiac, and, at least in desire, a mass-murderer. [19 November 2006] 
apostrophe by Bill Kennedy and Darren Wershler-HenryAs instantiated online, the apostrophe engine turns your attention away from the poem on the screen, and to the hyperlink that beckons you to click again. [13 November 2006] 
Binge by Barrett SeamanAs "one male Ivy League junior" affirmed, "It's easier to go out and get fucked up and hook up than be sober and ask a girl on a date and get nothing for it". [10 October 2006] 
Falling Room by Eli HastingsHastings has written a much more interesting memoir than his self-described "angst-ridden, infantile leftist lens" might lead one to expect. [4 October 2006] 
My Freshman Year by Rebekah NathanIt's a shame that this book is so disappointing, because Nathan/Small is right about its need. [29 September 2006] 
JPod by Douglas CouplandWhat's missing from JPod altogether is a sense of the increasingly participatory nature of online culture. [4 August 2006] BlogsConsuming Consumables: An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England by Brock Clarke [$23.95] [13 December 2007]Re:Print: Does Microsoft Word Have Literary Judgment? [25 September 2007]Re:Print: Impotence: A review and interview [17 July 2007]Re:Print: In memoriam: Sterling E. Lanier [11 July 2007]Re:Print: Soft Skull Online Sale [13 June 2007]Re:Print: Dennis Cass discusses Head Case [19 May 2007]Re:Print: Spring… when a young man’s thoughts lightly turn to Trollope [17 May 2007]Re:Print: Reading and Time [8 May 2007]Re:Print: Things that must stop [26 April 2007]Re:Print: Another Welcome [23 April 2007]Consuming Consumables: The Omnivore’s Dilemma [14 December 2006]Consuming Consumables: READ - What’s Liberal about the Liberal Arts? [12 December 2006]Consuming Consumables: READ - The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XVII: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis [5 December 2006]Consuming Consumables: READ - Lost Girls by Alan Moore [30 November 2006]Consuming Consumables: READ - LibraryThing.com [27 November 2006] |
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