How did I not know about Eileen Myles? An icon, a feminist, oh, a feminist icon? An activist. A New York person, a person of that city, who can’t make…
Category: Prose & Narrative
Johanna Skibsrud’s The Sentimentalists is up for a Giller Prize (the “darkest horse” in the race according to the Toronto Star), but she is also a poet, and the author…
“How ingenious, Anton! Did you carve it yourself?” This was the sort of inane question you asked Anton Kruppev. For you had to say something to alleviate the tension of…
The smoking gun in the whole Smoking Gun examination into the James Frey phenomenon is actually the ridiculousness of a book such as this gaining the kind of popularity it…
A good short story can be like a bomb going off in the middle of one’s life. It can also be, as Walter Mosley has said, like a small gem,…
Every time Winterson disappoints me (and lets face it, we’ve had a string of them…), I remember The Passion, Sexing The Cherry and Art Objects, and of course with all…