I’m just going to come right out and say it: Mark Danielewski is a one-trick pony. It’s not that he’s a bad writer, it’s that if you pull a gimmick more than once, you become the gimmicky guy, and that’s what Danielewski’s writing reflects. When House of Leaves came out, it was exciting, because it was […]
MARGAUX (sighs) All right. You know I have more respect for your art than I do for my own fears. SHEILA Thank you! Thank you! MARGAUX Just promise you won’t betray me. A lot of people I know are trying to get their first jobs out of college. Many of them are bitter that they […]
“Like her second CD, When the Pawn … , the full title of which, at 90 words, appeared, to her pride, in the Guinness Book of World Records, this album’s title is a sort of proverb: The Idler Wheel Is Wiser / Than the Driver of the Screw / And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More / Than Ropes Will Ever Do. For […]
I visited New York City over this past Labor Day weekend as an implementation of my unofficial ‘Visit NYC Once Per Year’ Plan. This trip, of course, would only be the second instance of the plan, because the first time I ever visited NYC was in April 2011. But there’s a certain gravity with the […]
If I close my eyes hard enough, maybe adding some pressure with my thumb and forefinger, I see glints of technicolor atop infinite darkness. I’m transported back to fourth grade, a field trip to the planetarium. Library-quietness hangs in the air inside the auditorium. The seats are plush and recline and swallow up the children. […]
