How (Not) to Say “I Love You” with Perec
Perec’s narrative frames and the people who live in them tend to look fragmented, but it’s this incompleteness that invites pathos and attempts to piece a puzzle back together.
My Year with the Canon (According to ETS)
Whether or not I ace the GRE Subject Test in Literature, I have gained an invaluable amount of literary knowledge and perspective on the canon (whatever it may be).
What We Talk About When We Talk About The Minnesota Timberwolves
Sports are soap operas, and if you watch closely you can pick out the artists at work among gladiators.
Reading Glaciers is a bit like having a self-conscious friend, reluctant to reveal anything too personal, too embarrassing, too human.
The people that you might have been, or the things that you might have done, or the things that happened that you wish didn’t happen — those are the real ghosts.
My Brother Emailed Me Christian Sex Tapes
The creepy gospel of Tim Chaddick.
The best portraits are self-reflexive: a guest at a party with one eye on the host and the other on the door, a mirror with a carefully-placed layer of grease.
No Porn, Memes, Ads, or Government Ties: The “Real News”
The Real News Network clearly has its priorities in place, firmly opposite those of other new media outlets.
Many critics have called the book “quirky,” which is perhaps unavoidable when the author layers uncomfortable and even disturbing scenes with levity.
Ancient Ice vs. Emotionally-Crippling Irony
Lake Vostok hasn’t felt wind in over 20 million years. For the last 20 of those years, a Russian team of scientists and engineers have been drilling through the 2.2 miles of hardened Antarctic ice in conditions so harsh that machines frequently stop working and air traffic is halted.