I first became aware of Felicia Day (as did almost everyone else) shortly after she released The Guild on the internet in 2007 and became a geek celebrity. The… Read more “A Review of You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) by Felicia Day”
Category: Books
A Review of Gay Directors, Gay Films? by Emanuel Levy
Film critic Emanuel Levy‘s new book Gay Directors , Gay Films? is an excellent examination of the work of five gay filmmakers–Pedro Almodóvar, Terence Davies, Todd Haynes, Gus Van… Read more “A Review of Gay Directors, Gay Films? by Emanuel Levy”
A Review of Saving Julian by Mason Stokes
Paul Drucker is a middle-aged preacher and psychology professor with a thriving gay conversion ministry, a successful book called Saving Our Boys from the Gay Menace, and a secret–he’s… Read more “A Review of Saving Julian by Mason Stokes”
Tender and Wild: A Review of John Burnside’s Black Cat Bone
In The Fair Chase, the extended opening poem of John Burnside’s latest volume of poetry, the narrator hunts a strange creature through the woods and across the countryside. The poem… Read more “Tender and Wild: A Review of John Burnside’s Black Cat Bone”
A Review of The Only Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic by Jessica Hopper
Jessica Hopper feels music in her bones, in her blood, in the soles of her shoes and the tips of her fingers. This is one of the… Read more “A Review of The Only Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic by Jessica Hopper”
A Review of Keepers by Richard Schickel
Richard Schickel’s Keepers: The Greatest Films–and Personal Favorites–of a Moviegoing Lifetime (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015) is a book a cinephile earns the right to write with a lifetime… Read more “A Review of Keepers by Richard Schickel”
A Review of Love and Other Wounds: Stories by Jordan Harper
Jordan Harper’s first collection of short stories, Love and Other Wounds, might be the most brutal collection of short fiction I’ve ever read. Fast, unrelenting, and brief, the book… Read more “A Review of Love and Other Wounds: Stories by Jordan Harper”
A Review of The Horror of It All by Adam Rockoff
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”
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 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”
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