Forget Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “unacknowledged legislators of the world.” Skip Fox’s Sheer Indefinite reveals that our day’s poets are, rather, the computer programmers of the universe. If our universe is indeed a virtual simulation, like so many Hollywood movies and conspiracy theorists posit, Skip Fox’s Sheer Indefinite is the reference manual to its sublime syntax. And […]
Charles Fourier (1772-1837) is a taxonomist, which in this case should absolutely be confused with taxidermist. In certain ways, The Hierarchies of Cuckoldry and Bankruptcy prove that he’s both. The book is an organized collection of all the different types of cuckolds and all the different types of bankruptcy. Cuckoldry comes first. Each cuckold is […]
It’s the best record I’ve heard in a long time: the debut by L A N D – Night Within; out July 31, 2012 via Important Records. It’s described by the record company as “approaching an apocalyptic noir narrative.” This calls to mind many a creation from Blade Runner to Nick Harkaway’s most recent novel […]
I’m reminded of a previous time. What it was once like to be a kid dreaming of movies promised by trailers. Where summer guaranteed maybe not the award winners of the year, but quite possibly the most entertaining, most awe inspiring, most rewarding moments of time a young mind could soak up. A time when […]
After finishing two novels set in the Soviet Union, Gary Shteyngart’s writing has sailed to America. In a world where your self-worth is determined by your credit score, onion-skin pants display your genitalia in public, and people connect only through their Global Teen accounts, can one remain innocent enough for true love to exist? This […]
