Adam Rockoff comes off as something of a cad in his newest book The Horror of It all: One Moviegoer’s Love Affair with Masked Maniacs, Frightened Virgins,… Read more “A Review of The Horror of It All by Adam Rockoff”
Author: David Nilsen
A Review of Dark Sparkler by Amber Tamblyn
This is how to die in the arms of a suburban wind, learning how to be forgotten over and over again. – from the poem Laurel Gene… Read more “A Review of Dark Sparkler by Amber Tamblyn”
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
John Huston’s 1948 classic The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is ostensibly about greed and the way otherwise decent people change for the worse under its influence,… Read more “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)”
The Review of The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
Early in Maggie Nelson’s thunderclap of a memoir The Argonauts the author quotes French philosopher Roland Barthes: “‘I love you’ is like ‘the Argonaut renewing his ship during… Read more “The Review of The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson”
A Review of Gregory Pardlo’s Digest
“All the gods fettered to the machinery of our routine lives” That’s the final line of the poem All God’s Chillun from Greg Pardlo’s newest volume of poetry, 2014’s… Read more “A Review of Gregory Pardlo’s Digest”
Teeth and Bones and No Home to Haunt: A Review of Colin Winnette’s Haints Stay
The Old West of Colin Winnette’s newest book is one denuded of the romance of American goodness, the country’s self-myth of inherent decency and indomitable success. There… Read more “Teeth and Bones and No Home to Haunt: A Review of Colin Winnette’s Haints Stay”
The Trains of Human Desire (1954)
I’m going to be writing more in depth about Fritz Lang’s great noir Human Desire (1954) later on, but for now I want to focus on one… Read more “The Trains of Human Desire (1954)”
A Review of The Tijuana Book of the Dead by Luis Alberto Urrea
Despairing of God I went to the desert to seek my own saint. – from Sonoran Desert Sutras The surface of Luis Alberto Urrea’s newest volume of… Read more “A Review of The Tijuana Book of the Dead by Luis Alberto Urrea”
Poetry Matters.
The first writing I ever did was poetry. My sister moved away to college as I was beginning sixth grade, and for some silly reason left her… Read more “Poetry Matters.”
His Girl Friday (1940)
Witty banter gets a bad rap. No, people don’t talk in real life like they do in Aaron Sorkin films. No, moms and daughters don’t exchange witticisms… Read more “His Girl Friday (1940)”
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