In today’s edition of the Chicago Sun-Times, you will find my review of Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones. Let it be known that I did…
Heather Armstrong appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #276. Heather Armstrong is most recently the author of It Sucked and Then I Cried. [This is…
Tatia Rosenthal appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #275. Tatia Rosenthal is is most recently the director of $9.99. The film is presently playing at…
Adam Del Deo appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #274. Adam Del Deo is most recently the co-director of Every Little Step. The film is…
[This is the fourth in a series of dispatches relating to the New Directors/New Films series, running between March 25 and April 5 at MOMA...
[This is the third in a series of dispatches relating to the New Directors/New Films series, running between March 25 and April 5 at MOMA...
The book appears to have been completely ignored by American newspapers. There’s this snobbish Bookforum review which observes “lowbrow thrills” and appears written by a…
On the morning of Saturday, March 21, 2009, I left the house to purchase an onion. This action, in and of itself, might be considered…
[This is the second in a series of dispatches relating to the New Directors/New Films series, running between March 25 and April 5 at MOMA...
[This is the first in a series of dispatches relating to the New Directors/New Films series, running between March 25 and April 5 at MOMA...
Some years ago, not long after Herb Caen’s death, I decided to make a series of pilgrimages to the San Francisco Public Library to dust…
T.C. Boyle appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #273. T.C. Boyle is most recently the author of The Women. To listen to our previous interviews…
Andrea Peyser appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #272. Andrea Peyser is most recently the author of Celebutards. [PROGRAM NOTE: At the 22 minute mark,…
Tony Stone appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #271. Tony Stone is the director, writer, producer, editor, and actor of Severed Ways, a film about…
Zach Cregger and Trevor Moore are part of a comedy group called The Whitest Kids U’ Know [sic], a television show presently airing on the…
In an effort to encourage folks to whip up some decent eats during this economic downturn, here’s an improvised recipe for vegetable corn chowder. It…
It is a happy necessity which obliges wisdom to do good, whereas indifference with regard to good and evil would indicate a lack of goodness…
Eric Kraft appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #270. Eric Kraft is most recently the author of Flying. This is the third of a three…
Eric Kraft appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #269. Eric Kraft is most recently the author of Flying. This is the second of a three…
Bloggers are never supposed to start a piece with a scene on the subway because it reveals either the frugal reality about the way they…
My review of G. Xavier Robillard’s Captain Freedom appears in today’s edition of the Chicago Sun-Times, along with many other interesting pieces, including Mark Athitakis’s…
To read my tribute back in January, go here. And here’s a report of the final reading at the Chronicle. (via Frances)
(This is the fifth of a five-part roundtable discussion of Eric Kraft’s Flying. Part One, Part Two, Part Three, and Part Four can also be…
(This is the fourth of a five-part roundtable discussion of Eric Kraft’s Flying. Part One, Part Two, Part Three, and Part Five can be read…
(This is the third of a five-part roundtable discussion of Eric Kraft’s Flying. Part One, Part Two, Part Four, and Part Five can also be…
Eric Kraft appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #268. Eric Kraft is most recently the author of Flying. This is the first of a three…
I’ve had a quiet obsession with the Panama Canal for a while. Now another book has come along — Julie Greene’s The Canal Builders —…
(This is the second of a five-part roundtable discussion of Eric Kraft’s Flying. Part One, Part Three, Part Four, and Part Five can also be…
(This is the first of a five-part roundtable discussion of Eric Kraft’s Flying. Here’s Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, and Part Five.) Introduction This…