Let’s talk about cosmology for a second. You can sometimes glimpse it in a fiction writer’s language, see those nebulae effervescing as the characters attract and repel—or in Sam Lipsyte’s case with the Fun Parts, verbally (and sometimes physically) (but not literally) ripping each other new assholes. The ebb and flow of Lipsyte’s universe is one […]
Cycle 4 is coming soon: will you rock enroll with Underacademy College? Joshua Covell has the right idea: edit your resume with this vulgarest of typefaces. Zosia Mamet in Really Really is “keeper of the rape jokes.” To wit: the AV Club reports, “Promotion for Nymphomaniac begins with this photo taken of the inside of […]
Where can the Anobium staff obtain these death metal Grammy nominee shirts? This is urgent. “Likewise, Butterball has feelings for Nia, but they remain pretty childlike, which seems unlikely for a typical 13-year-old. Anger about, and because of, sexuality is a subtext throughout the book, but 50 Cent is unwilling to bring it to the […]
Bulletpoint’d review of Aleksandar Hemon’s new book, The Book of My Lives, now commencing: —Most of the stories in this book have been previously published in other outlets (the New Yorker, Playboy, McSweeney’s, etc.) over the past few years. But that doesn’t actually make this book this book any less cohesive. In fact, excepting a few […]
A Christmas gift card was burning a Criterion-sized hole in Joshua Covell‘s pocket. The consensus among Anobium is that, should you find yourself in Mr. Covell’s situation, you best choose Fritz Lang’s M. Or else. From Anobium Editor Benjamin Van Loon: Fearing the onset of hoarder-dom, have you emptied your garage in a post-holiday purge? […]
