Gilgamesh is like a more complex version of a Rorschach test, a literary kaleidoscope that you can turn many ways and see so many patterns within. What you pick out often says a lot about you.
Jack Ruby and the Origins of the Avant-Garde in Dallas – Robert Trammell
Dallas in particular, makes weirdos, the truth of whose identities are more fruitfully explored at a bar stool than in a congressional commission.
I’ve tried to think about the university as something to be protected and looked after, and for that very reason, also as the object of our most unrelenting critique.
I love stories where people go to hell, and obviously this novel is my contribution to that literature.
You have to look beyond the monster itself in order to understand what it actually means.
On some level, Vermont remains the arugula-chomping hippie at the farmers’ market, while New Hampshire is still a guy asserting his right to mow the lawn while naked.
What the feminist health movement really did was change the way that we understand evidence and experience – and actually the knowledge of the body. Individual experience can be as legitimate as scientific knowledge.
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In my current novels, the satyr play is interwoven with the tragedy. Seriousness and fun are intertwined, philosophy, the former queen of the sciences is one with its jester …
Bierce’s cynicism of our institutions, the rich, religion, and common beliefs could have been written yesterday.