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
WannaBowies: The Top Twenty Bastards of Bowie
David Bowie, like the Beatles and Bob Dylan, long ago achieved the status of adjective. For Monday Rock City, Robert Burke Warren lists the Top Twenty Bowie Bastards, i.e. the most Bowie-esque soundalikes, stretching from the 70s to the ‘aughts. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, David must be feeling pretty special right about now. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciations, Humor, I Want(ed) My MTV, Literature, Monday Rock City, Music, Popped Culture, Popular Culture, Religion, The Weeklings, Uncategorized
Tagged aimee mann, bauhaus, Bowie, David Bowie, Duran Duran, enda walsh, hedwig, iggy, lazarus, lennon, martin fry, phoebe cates, pulp hedwig, robert burke warren, sexton, sisters of mercy, soacehog, suede, til tuesday, Ween, ziggy stardust
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Nonexistent Knights: Italo Calvino, Richey Edwards and the Identity of the Writer
Mysterious disappearances. The Manic’s Richey Edwards dropped off the face of the earth. Calvino shape shifted. What does it offer an author. Philip Marsh on the I and voice of writing. Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Music
Tagged Autobiography, Italo Calvino, Manic Street Preachers, Sherlock Holmes, writing
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Dirty Laundry
Joshua Mohr celebrates his birthday in San Francisco with a handful of dirty socks and a nose full of dreams. Continue reading
Posted in Literature
Tagged 500 club, all this life, booze, Bukowski, drunkard, Frank Norris, Joshua Mohr, Kathy Acker, kilowatt, lone palm, no redemption, san francisco, shellfish
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An Excerpt from “Loving Day”
A short excerpt from the new book by Mat Johnson, author of PYM. Continue reading
The Enigmatic and Infinite Juxtaposition of a Sunflower and Oreo: An Interview with Mat Johnson
Helena Baptiste sits down with Mat Johnson to discuss writing, publishing, race, and his new novel LOVING DAY. Continue reading
Posted in Literature
Tagged biracial, fatherhood, Loving Day, Mat Johnson, novels, publishing, Pym, race, VIDA, writing
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In Defense of Stephen King
Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. Continue reading
Posted in Literature
Tagged 'Salem's Lot, Christine, Cujo, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Harold Bloom, High-brow, It, Low-brow, Rolling Stone, Sean Murphy, Stephen King, The Stand
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The Cliffs: An Essay, A Fiction, A Zombie Fusion. Part VI
From YA zombies to multiple choice questions, Eric LeMay’s The Cliffs takes you through a post-apocalyptic landscape with a hybrid fiction/essay serialized for the holidays. Continue reading
Posted in Literature
Tagged Katniss Everdeen, post-apocalyptic, The Hunger Games, YA, zombies
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