For the second year, The Guardian will be running its “Not the Booker Prize” competition, where recent literary greats can compete (as nominated by Internet commentators) for this coveted prize: The prize was designed to thwart three common flaws in the real Booker Prize: your favourite book didn’t win (and if you are me you…Read More
Theories about lesbian satanist gangs are a crucial starting point for any police investigation. Never trust your father. Never trust your guardian. Never trust your estranged twin sister. Never trust male police officers. You know what? Just don’t trust anyone. Except for investigative journalists. Especially if they make constant references to Pippi Longstocking or use…Read More
“‘I was a successful literary agent, but I had a terrible secret life of drug abuse and sex in super swank hotels that brought me down.’ ‘No one knew the sheer horror of my Jelly Belly addiction.’ ‘I would hire prostitutes to make a doody on my chest because of my deep issues with inadequacy.’…Read More
Less Than Zero is a book that dudes like, or, in our current discourse, a good book.
Maybe it comes from being close to the target demographic of 23-year-old girls with Tumblrs, but I liked this book. It’s honest and disillusioned and insightful when it needs to be. Suck it, Time Out.
Parabolist: noun (1) one who speaks in parables. (2) a member of a splinter group of disaffected young poets in Mexico City c. 1975. (3) a practitioner of the art of concentrating multiple sources of energy into a single focus, illuminating or, if left unchecked, destroying everything in its path.
JD Salinger died today at age 91, which came as a bit of a surprise, since I had no idea he was still alive. The first time I read Catcher in the Rye was last August, which was too bad, since I suspect that if I had read it much earlier (read: when I was…Read More