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
Poor Pretty Thing
Gabriel Mason finds inspiration in the unlikeliest of places: a writers’ conference. Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Memoir
Tagged art, beauty, literature, Love, writers, writers conferences
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Branding: It Burns – Being an explanation of why for novelists the notion of branding is fraught with peril
Nicola Griffith on the perils of the world of modern publishing, from Twitter to Platforms and back, via the 7th Century. Or how to think like an executive about writing novels… Continue reading
Understanding “Dracula”
Vampire stories, while timeless, are really only as narratively rich as the world they emerge from and thematically draw on. Continue reading
Getting the Blues – Sex, Words and the Hues
How William H Gass’s take on the shade of blue, gives Tessa Laird the Blues – while examining sex, writing and the power of the color itself. Continue reading
Posted in Literature, The Arts
Tagged Blue, Derek Jarman, Maggie Nelson, Rebecca Solnit, William H Gass
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Monday Rock City: A Conversation with Joe Perry of Aerosmith
Intrepid scribe J.M. Blaine chats with rock icon Joe Perry, lead guitarist and co-mastermind – with Steven Tyler – of Aerosmith, and it’s a helluva ride. Perry’s long-awaited memoir “Rocks: My Life In and Out of Aerosmith” drops this week, and the soulful brooder gives us all a sneak peek at his amazing, drug-addled, miraculous, and glitzy tale, which also includes advice on how to stay married for three decades, which may be his most amazing achievement of all. Continue reading
Literary Luminaries: Beards, Vaginas and the Avant-Garde Novelist – Part II
In Part II of her two-part essay, Sam Mills ponders why female avant-garde novelists are not as celebrated as their male counterparts. Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Politics
Tagged #ReadWomen, Alice Munro, Anna Kavan, beats, Burroughs, Homeland, Joanna Walsh, Jonathan franzen, Sheila Heti, The Quiddity of Will Self, Virginia Woolf, Zadie Smith
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