Category: Literature
Being Called Quasimodo Is A Good Thing When You’re Salvatore
Like many Italian authors, Salvatore Quasimodo is frequently allowed to fall by the wayside in favor of Italo Calvino, who seems to be the primary [Read More…]
Is Madonna’s Sex Book Really So Different From Her Children’s Books?
Madonna may have changed the game with her 1992 coffee table book, Sex, but that doesn’t mean her tamer literary years of children’s books in [Read More…]
The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.: The “Girls” of the Literary World
There’s something about describing Brooklyn in any way–it doesn’t seem to matter how generic or thoughtless–that gets people, to quote Shane Black, “wetter than Drew [Read More…]
The Bellow-Proust Parallel
You wouldn’t think that a Canadian Jew and a gay Frenchman would have much in common, but in the case of Saul Bellow and Marcel [Read More…]
The Best Pieces of Pop Culture with the Word “American” In It
People love to slap the word “American” in front of their shit. I guess it just somehow makes their art seem more serious or meaningful. [Read More…]
Lana Del Rey’s Most Literary Tracks
Lana Del Rey, whose sophomore album, Ultraviolence, drops on June 17th, has always shown a predilection for literary references in her music. Even though one [Read More…]
Daddy’s Girl: The Electra Complex in Poetry and Fiction
For those with a somewhat less warm and fuzzy view of Father’s Day, delve deeper into the psychosis of what it truly means to love [Read More…]
The Man Who Loved Children: A Non-Pedophilic Horror Story
One of the most tragic tales in literary history is also one of the most under appreciated (unless you count John Waters’ nod to it [Read More…]
White Girl Problems vs. Psychos
Babe Walker’s follow-up to 2012’s memoir White Girl Problems is, in many ways, more of the same–with the twist of a mystery novel combined vaguely [Read More…]
Sexuality, the Myra Breckinridge Way
Conceivably, there has never been a bawdier broad in the annals (a deliberate word choice) of literature than Myra Breckinridge. The conniving film connoisseur–“Golden Age” [Read More…]
