3
Jun
2010
Epileptic by David B.
I don’t often talk explicitly about the art when reviewing graphic novels. To me, the art is usually secondary to the story (and the writing thereof). But the art in David B.’s Epileptic blew my mind.
2
Jun
2010
Adventures in Cartooning by James Sturm, Andrew Arnold, and Alexis Frederick-Frost
Dewey Decimal System! You have failed! This book is in the wrong section. Sure, it’s with the other books about cartoons and comics in the 740’s, but it should be with the YA section. The reading ages is 4-8 for crying out loud!
1
Dec
2009
The Body Artist by Don DeLillo
I finished this one a week or two ago, but I had to let my brain digest it for a while.
21
Nov
2009
Myths to Live By by Joseph Campbell
Oh Joseph Campbell, how I love you. If you weren’t dead, I would find you and stalk you until you married me. I want to live inside your head. No other one scholar has influenced me like you have. It was your work which inspired me to major in Comparative Religion, possibly the most useless of all liberal arts degrees (except maybe Art History), and I have never really regretted it.
30
Aug
2009
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
There’s a Facebook Group called Zadie Smith Snubbed My Short Story and I will Have My Revenge. The description is “…On that pretentious E.M. Forster plot-stealing whore.” Recent news reports that she is still freckly, wearing head scarves, and smugly in love with Nick Laird. Evidently this group is a joke, as the founder posts, “look you douche, its a joke alright, Zadie Smith never has and never will reject any of my (frankly hilarious) short stories. I find it odd and strange that six other people have joined this total non-event of a group, especially someone called Rusty Trombone.” You can check it out but I pretty much just included the funny bits here.
