Tag: literature
The End of the Tour Is Just the Start of Analyzing David Foster Wallace
“Technology is only going to get better. And it’s going to become more and more comfortable for people to sit in a room alone enjoying [Read More…]
Jesse Eisenberg: The New James Franco of the Literary World
Just when you thought James Franco was the only actor vexatiously parlaying his fame into a writing career, Jesse Eisenberg came along and submitted a [Read More…]
Ada, Or Ardor: Literature’s Great Incest Story
Just as film has incestuous works of art in the likes of The Dreamers and Girl, Interrupted and television has it in Arrested Development, Ada, [Read More…]
Sheila Heti Asks How Should A Person Be?, Doesn’t Quite Answer Question
The acclaimed debut novel of Sheila Heti, How Should A Person Be? asks a bold, sweeping question that never really gets answered by the time [Read More…]
Zelda Fitzgerald: The Ideal Tumblrer
Tumblr is very much the type of thing that Zelda Fitzgerald could have used during her era of oppression as an aspiring writer. Considered an [Read More…]
Amores Perros & 2666: Showcasing Mexico At Its Modern Worst
Although Alejandro González Iñárritu’s 2000 film Amores Perros is not an epic piece of literature in the same impressively expansive vein as Roberto Bolaño’s 2004 [Read More…]
In Love With In Love
Alfred Hayes is one of those great writers that everyone should know about, but somehow tends to fall by the wayside when compared to other [Read More…]
Desperately Seeking Spoonerisms: The Decline of Word Play in Literature
“Spoonerism” may sound like a dirty word, but that’s only because it’s employed so rarely in contemporary literature that we’ve become unfamiliar with the term. [Read More…]
Does An Obsession With Pop Culture Connote Godlessness?
The easy answer: Yes. To be without religion doesn’t mean you’re without a subject to worship. And the subject that’s most easily accessible is pop [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…]
