I’m setting the example. What I’ve done is going to be puzzled over and studied and followed… forever. Andrew Kevin Walker (screenwriter) – Se7en I. The (moderately) Wayback Machine The year was 2004. Jonathon Franzen had long since made nice with Oprah and his Corrections was, three years after its publication, still being used […]
For Nas, as with Orson Welles, his first was always his best. His 1994 debut, Illmatic, was unexpected, combative, clever, supremely confident, and often cocky (after all, every rapper worth his salt is his own best hype man). Nas has tried to live up to the potential of that masterful introduction for nearly two decades, […]
I fall in love with a cowboy in the middle of a great tragedy. the great tragedy is my life. I love a title that I can’t say without bringing the back of my hand to my forehead and affecting a Katherine Hepburn voice. Anthony Hopkins affected a Katherine Hepburn voice for the role of […]
There are ways of writing history. School book classical with feigned objectivity purporting to be conclusive; or with a subjectivity, with personality; as if a person were actually behind the words, as if a soul were buried in the legends on display. George Dyson has a voice behind him. With Turing’s Cathedral it’s clear he […]
Good for Mark Leyner getting some cover copy from John Cusack and Todd Solondz, among others. It belies a bit of back-room schmoozability, or what some might call aloofness, and it’s precisely this that carries over into The Sugar Frosted Nutsack, Leyner’s latest and greatest. It’s meta-hip, packed with italics and bold phrases and bold italic phrases and […]
