Archive for category: Books

‘Unlimited Embrace’    (2015.02.19)

I did not know one could learn so much from literary criticism. Then I read Unlimited Embrace by Reed Woodhouse

Elon Green, literati’s cyberbully    (2014.10.11)

The social-justice warrior’s cries of sexism do not justify worsening actual health or threatening human life

Mr. PIETSCH    (2014.06.03)

Mr. PIETSCH let me down

‘The AIDS Generation’    (2014.01.24)

The atrociously edited and sequenced book The AIDS Generation by Halkitis has a tiny saving grace in direct testimony from eldergays about their estrangement from gay culture

Fabrice Neaud    (2014.01.19)

Fabrice Neaud: I gave up on him, but part of his œuvre is still an evocative and meaningful art project

Two editors you don’t want working on your nonfiction book    (2014.01.16)

Natalie Horbechevsky and Brooke Carey. They’re the editrixen listed in the acknowledgements to Leander Kahney’s Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products, a treasure trove of repetitiveness and warmed-over quotes

I told you this was how rich David Sedaris is    (2013.12.08)

“[A]bout a month after Tiffany’s suicide, David was asked, ‘What if you could ask her one question?’ He replied, ‘Can I have the money back that I loaned you?’ He laughed…. ‘She said, “I will pay you back in my lifetime.” I can’t believe I fell for that’ ”

Almost like a kind of ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ for the queer-supremacist set    (2013.08.23)

As shown in What I Love about Being Queer, queer kills gay dead

This is how rich David Sedaris is    (2013.08.06)

In Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls, this is what David Sedaris talks about because this is how rich he is