Literature
Το Αμερικανικό Μυθιστόρημα που Εξερευνά την Queer Ζωή και την Τρομοκρατία στην Ελλάδα των 90s
Όταν η Cara Hoffman ξεκίνησε να γράφει το «Running», δεν είχε προβλέψει τη σχέση του με τη σημερινή πολιτική πραγματικότητα.
Μια Συνέντευξη με τον Nick Cave Μεταξύ Ρομαντισμού, Τρέλας και Παράνοιας
Συναντήσαμε τον Nick Cave, με αφορμή την κυκλοφορία του νέου του βιβλίου «The Sick Bag Song».
Jerry Stahl Is Not the Father of a Mutant Child
Although Jerry Stahl became famous for Permanent Midnight, his junkie memoir, he now lives a sedate life with his wife and kid. Luckily for us, normalcy hasn't stopped Jerry from writing Happy Mutant Baby Pills, a novel about a woman who...
Them Sounds Is Furious
I Am Not from This Planet is a column where we give James Franco’s Florida-bred, gun-toting, big-bootie-loving pal Alien the floor to sound off on whatever he likes. For this inaugural edition, Alien breaks us off some knowledge with a review of...
“Greatest Living American Writer” Neal Pollack Talks About His ‘Jeopardy!’ Victory
Neal Pollack used to be a literary celebrity thanks to Dave Eggers and a penchant for weird stunts, but recently he achieved a new kind of fame by being one of Alex Trebek's playthings for three nights.
A Pilgrimage to Gypsy Lou Webb, New Orleans’s Patron Saint of Beat Literature
With her husband Jon, Gypsy Lou Webb ran Loujon Press and made beautiful art books that featured poetry from Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg. At 97, she now lives off of social security and the kindness of fans.
The British Library's Wi-Fi Blocked Hamlet, But These 14 Classics Are Way More Violent
Hamlet has a straight-up body count. There’s a murder before the play even begins. There’s a suicide, poisonings, stabbings, and a poisonous stabbing. But that's nothing. Even in the strictest, fustiest canon of literature, Hamlet's level of violence...
Conceptual Writing, Gender, Murder, and Bob Seger
The big shithole that is the internet has become the ultimate fodder for manufacturing conceptual art. There has never been more information and more ways to generate, spread, and manipulate it, while the historical aura of the artist-as-presence...
The Miami Heat Reader
Chris Bosh is considerate and thoughtful, interested in discussing the physics of a sentence, the use of dreams in creating plot, and irregular meter. For several years he kept a reading diary on LiveJournal under the username BigUpsBoshMane, which he...
‘American Psycho’: Ten Years Later/Twenty Years Later
'American Psycho' is (at least for now) the pinnacle of Bret Easton Ellis's art: the dark-hearted swansong of an era that sums up its subject matter with a perfect balance of breadth and incisiveness. Gross satire delivered with a hyperrealistic...
Please Start Banning Books Again
I kind of miss the idea of cultural lines that one can’t step over. One of my most memorable high school experiences was getting a permission slip signed by my parents so I could listen to an audiotape of Allen Ginsberg reading “America.”
A JPEG Interview with Douglas Coupland
Author Douglas Coupland is pretty tired of email interviews, and who can blame him? To keep things fresh, Nadja Sayej interviewed him with JPEGs of handwritten questions, and Douglas responded in kind.