…the narrator’s flashbacks into her Berlin past, her escapades with a pianist and a paratrooper, her escapades which are maybe romantic and maybe artistic, they remind me of my own escapades and the souls which come up like flashbacks when I wanted too much or too little and which shaped my development as an artist.
Read MoreAggressively Gentle seems to be penned as much to the emptiness of the world as to an abstract object of desire.
Read MoreMy German Brother delivers a tragic account of a man who outsources his sense of self and uses literature as a social tool rather than as a form of human discovery.
Read MoreIn the process of communicating the visual images of Thornton’s film, Vi Khi Nao abstracts time from an analog, continuous flow to digital breaths which require mental recalibration at every second.
Read MoreThe pastoral is dying, or dead, and Trout Fishing in America is the swan song Brautigan writes for an America in the midst of a transition to an automatized, commodified, pop culture-driven society.
Read MoreWhen the narrator loses his observational distance and becomes an interacting party in the events at the temple, so too does Beauman in his authorship. So too do I in my criticism.
Read MoreRead at face value, Valley of the Dolls is all pulp, a novel-length gossip column detailing the lives of women caught up in the artifice of Broadway and Hollywood. However, read at face value, we are all pulp too.
Read MoreRegardless of how much data we have accumulated on an individual, how many conversations are had, how many moments are shared, we can never truly know another person.
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