Required Reading
- What’s Your Problem with Joe Biden?
- Dirty Rubles: An Introduction to Trump/Russia (My New Book)
- Youth for the President
- A Summary of the Conspiracy Against the United States
- Trump: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Part 3)
- Postcards from the Resistance, Vol. 8: Mother of All
- From Lance Armstrong to Trump: The Rise & Fall of the Deified Narcissist
- Reading Malcolm X in Texas
- Playing the Donald Trump Game
- President Rapist: Women Under Trump
- An Open Letter to My Fellow Liberals
- The Democrats Can’t Win If They Won’t Fight
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Category Archives: Literature
Welcome Thieves: An Appreciation
Our own Robert Burke Warren waxes on about Sean Beaudoin’s stellar, rockin’ Welcome Thieves. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciations, Humor, Literature, Matters of Faint Import, Memoir, The Weeklings, Uncategorized
Tagged algonquin, robert burke warren, Sean Beaudoin, welcome thieves
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Man in the High Castle: Better the Tyrant You Know
An essay on The Man in the High Castle and America’s fear of the foreign. Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Politics, Popular Culture, The Arts
Tagged Amazon Studios, Donald Trump, Nazis, Philip[ K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
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War is Beautiful: An Interview with David Shields
Davis Schneiderman talks to David Shields about his new book, a collage of war images published by the Paper of Record. Continue reading
Posted in Literature
Tagged David Shields, glamor, journalism, New York Times, war, War is Beautiful
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O’Connor and Coltrane: Saints of American Art
Flannery O’Connor wanted to jolt you with the violent shock of recognition, in the service of artistic if not spiritual consecration; Coltrane wanted to transcend the insanity altogether, altering consciousness through a profoundly moving colloquy. Continue reading
Serving Time In Sonic Youth
You’ve seen Renaissance man and esteemed guest Weekling Richard Edson onscreen in Do the Right Thing, Platoon, Stranger Than Paradise, and dozens of other films, but you probably don’t know he was the original drummer in seminal NYC post-punk noise mavens Sonic Youth. In this fascinating slice of life, he shares his riveting account of being a participant in several crucial music movements at once. The arty, funky, early 80s East Village lives again! Continue reading
Posted in Cinema, Literature, Memoir, Monday Rock City, Music, Popped Culture, The Arts, Uncategorized
Tagged 80s, eighties, konk, lower east side, richard edson, sonic youth
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