Archive for category: The print medium

‘Creation’    (2016.05.30)

Excerpt from John D’Agata’s The Making of the American Essay

Alboism    (2016.05.01)

Mike Albo: ‘I am trying to feel things in my body, which is hard to do. When someone says something like “Where do you feel that?” or “What does that feel like?” I have a really hard time answering’

Braithwaite    (2016.04.27)

No one is going to write a Kathy Acker–manquée biography of Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite

Microwave-cooking editor    (2016.03.27)

I can no longer achieve the goal exhorted by an old friend – to become microwave-cooking editor at Soldier of Fortune magazine

‘Cruising the Movies’    (2016.01.18)

Boyd McDonald, of Straight to Hell infamy, watched old movies in his fleabag rooming house. “Apart from the æsthetics, we know, do we not, who is more intelligent: Men who have sex or queens who represent themselves as being above it”

Book of the year    (2016.01.04)

Here by Richard McGuire, which has radically recalibrated my sense of time. (Nº 2: Norwegian Wood)

This week in ‘Private Eye’    (2015.12.19)

Profile of Ian Hislop; fascinating interview with plummy-voiced in-house lawyer

“They did a lot else other than die”    (2015.10.26)

Gore Vidal, about his nephew, who died of AIDS: “We should try to recall that the victims of this plague have often had splendid lives. And, certainly, they did a lot else other than die”

A surprising subject for the ‘New Yorker’    (2015.10.25)

Michael Nava, Mexican-American homosexualist author of Mexican-American-homosexualist mystery novels