Tag Archives: Herman Melville

SEVEN THINGS WE DON’T CARE ABOUT THIS WEEK: Star-Spangled Edition

Posted on July 4, 2015 by Harold D. Muir

“Not caring about things since 1971, so that you don’t have to.” HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US. As our nation celebrates itself with inimitable fat & ugly elan, it seems like an appropriate time to celebrate some of the things … Continue reading →

Posted in Seven Things We Don't Care About | Tagged Captain Beefheart, Charles Mingus, Don Van Vliet, Herman Melville, Howlin Wolf, James Brown, Junior Kimbrough, Moby Dick, Safe as Milk, The Weeklings, Wayne Shorter | Leave a comment

The 50 Greatest Literary Character Names of All Time

Posted on October 8, 2013 by Greg Olear

Greg Olear whittles the Who’s Who of all of literature down to the 50 top names. Continue reading →

Posted in 50 Greatest | Tagged Aldous Huxley, Ayn Rand, Beverly Cleary, Bram SToker, Bret Easton Ellis, Charles Dickens, D.H. Lawrence, Daniel Defoe, Don DeLillo, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Francine Prose, George Orwell, Harper Lee, Herman Melville, Joe Heller, Laurence Sterne, Margaret Mitchell, Mark Twain, Mary Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oscar Wilde, Pauline Reage, Raoul Dahl, Richard Wright, Robert Heinlein, Roberto Bolano, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Stephen King, the Brontë sisters, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Harris, Thomas Pynchon, Truman Capote, Victor Hugo, Walker Percy, Washington Irving, William Faulkner, William Gibson, William Goldman | 200 Comments