Hot Metal Bridge has launched itself out of PA. Michael Martone and Dan Chaon guest star.
“I even bought The Road, intending to give it a fair read, a fresh start, hoping that maybe, just maybe, this will be the Cormac McCarthy novel I can finally stand.”
I’m sorry, but when you say “Gogol,” what I think is not “Indian with assimilation issues,” but Dead Souls. This may be purposeful. I admit I have not read The Namesake. (via Maud)
I’ll be dead eventually. And so will you. Philosophy is learning how to die, Cicero said, following Plato.
“I defy even confirmed Wes Anderson haters not to enjoy Max and Herman’s revenge montage, which begins with Max letting live bees into Herman’s hotel room and ends with prison.”
The ethnobiology of…. zombies.
Journalists, so used to referring to the Midwest as flyover country, probably shouldn’t ignore Ohio. Yes, it would be refreshing for someone from an east coast news publication to station a reporter in Iowa–but it’ll never happen.
The latest chapter in the ongoing Salon/Gawker catfight.
“It’s a safe bet that few people outside of narrow mathematical circles have ever heard the name Donald Coxeter, despite the fact that many mathematicians regard him as the greatest geometer of the 20th century.”