Tag: literature
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…]
Don DeLillo’s Libra: A Humanizing Account of Lee Harvey Oswald
Libra, one of the lesser appreciated works of Don DeLillo, came out in 1988–twenty-five years after John F. Kennedy’s death. Speculating on the events that [Read More…]
Are You A Writer? [Insert Gag Noise Here]
For most “writers,” being asked the question, “Are you a writer?” is not an emotional experience that results in a five second existential crisis. Most [Read More…]
Is It Impossible for Modern Writers to be Considered Intellectual?
While writers bear a certain amount of self-deprecation, self-doubt and self-loathing, they also possess a fair amount of ego. After all, what could be more [Read More…]
John Waters’ Role Models Should Be Yours Too
Not everyone sees John Waters as an exemplary role model. But that doesn’t mean his own personal role models aren’t worth emulating in certain respects. [Read More…]
Does Tama Janowitz’s Slaves of New York Still Resonate in Modern New York?
Tama Janowitz, a member of the literary Brat Pack crème de la crème, released the novel, Slaves of New York, in 1986. A selection of intertwining stories, [Read More…]
Wayne Kostenbaum Talks Briefly About the 80s in My 1980s
If your eye was caught by the cover of Wayne Kostenbaum’s My 1980s and you automatically assumed it had to be about said decade, there’s [Read More…]
Remaking The Bell Jar: Kate Zambreno’s Green Girl
The analogies between The Bell Jar and Green Girl are undeniable. To start from an obvious standpoint, you have the fact that the main character [Read More…]
Gypsy Rose Lee: One of the Greatest Female Authors of the 20th Century
It is often repeated in writers’ workshops throughout America that you should write what you know. And who did that better than the illustrious Gypsy [Read More…]
