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Faked
How funny would it be if literary figures had nicknames like street thugs? Pretty funny, it turns out. We’d be discussing “Boom-Boom-In-Da-Room Harold Bloom” and “my Once-A-Week-O Freak-O Critique-O...
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Etch A Death
After blasting Matthew Vollmer’s co-edited anthology, Fakes, for being “petulantly clever” and having an ass-backward sense of history, it seems wrong of me, somehow, to profess admiration for his...
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Failing Around
Illustration by Leo Espinosa for The New Yorker Even if you have to ransack the magazines at a dentist’s office, or hack into Condé Nast using your ex-boyfriend’s subscriber info, I strongly recommend...
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Speedboat!
I heard that Speedboat by Renata Adler was amazing, but I didn’t hear why. People talked about its schematics—quick, disconnected passages, neither fictional nor factual, koans ripped from the...
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CRITICAL HIT AWARDS with Lincoln Michel of Gigantic
The Critical Hit Awards — the only prize for literary criticism on the web — are back, with guest judge Lincoln Michel of Gigantic magazine, covering such topics as negative reviews, the villainy of...
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Jerry, Rigged
Salinger by Shane Salerno and David Shields is not so much a biography of J.D. Salinger as it is an assortment of press clips and interview excerpts about Salinger. None of the pieces are properly...
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