As alive as the West’s wide skies and wildflowers, this is a story to see us through the struggle to tell those we love that we love them.
Chat poses a constant negotiation of presence and absence. It’s ostensibly immediate but built on the invisibility of the interlocutor. Chat is about half-presence, half-engagement. I’m not ignoring you, of course not.
South African musicians are dancing to a new drum beat and expanding a third space to meld what was once divided.
The first step to a literary life is an education. College essay excerpts from Frank O’Hara, Cormac McCarthy, Virginia Woolf, E.L. James, and Ernest Hemingway.
Global Trends, Alternative Worlds
What’s especially interesting about Global Trends 2030 is that it includes four fictional “Alternative Worlds,” or four possible futures depending upon how current trends play out.
Operation Sweet Tooth is about the creation of art, in particular fiction.
Whales Don’t Have Any Money: On the Successes and Failures of Paul Quarrington’s Whale Music
The literary marketplace has not been particularly welcoming to narratives about fictional rock’n’roll stars in the last several decades.
In a World Governed by Economists and Poets
Human desires and intents are more complicated than what can be captured by quantifying costs and benefits. And sometimes our real choices are much simpler than the dozens of counter-factuals an economist might want to run to find the optimal course of action.
Somehow, even with the tousled hair and the cheap cigarettes, Anna Karina always managed to look every bit as dazzling as Audrey Hepburm, if not more so, simply by virtue of the fact that she knew how to match a gun with a pleated skirt, and would probably recite Marx with superb accuracy if you asked nicely and offered her a light.
Stoppard takes whichever elements please him and use them to assemble a fascinating Fabergé egg of a movie, an object to marvel at. Compressions in time express themselves in impossible spaces. Anna Karenina is as tightly wound as an old-fashioned clock, as carefully constructed as a music box.