Features
Wednesday, May 15 2013
In Defense Of... The Greatness of the Gatsby
Kathryn Schulz’s failure to appreciate F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterwork, as professed on Vulture.com, is a contemporary case study for how not to assess literature.
Monday, February 25 2013
The Pop Culture Death Trap Part 2: The Death of Beauty
Despite having seen it all before – the rock star and the blonde actress – we look on each such instance of celebrity death with the same mixture of surprise, curiosity, horror, and glee. Pop culture reflects our capacity to simultaneously ignore death and make of it an obsession.
Columns
Wednesday, October 10 2012
Occupy Literature: New York from Melville to the Beats
Before Occupy Wall Street rattled the money merchants, Herman Melville and the Beats shook the city's foundation with gumption and glee.
Thursday, July 30 2009
We All End Up in Diapers: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Comparing the book to the film, it’s as if Fitzgerald laid just the foundation, and from that Roth built a multi-storied house.
Blogs
Thursday, September 17 2009
Nine Booze-Soaked Books
Putting aside obvious selections like Charles R. Jackson’s The Lost Weekend, Malcolm Lowry’s harrowing Under the Volcano, or essentially anything written by Charles Bukowski, we…
