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"Coming Down Again: After the Age of Excess"
... liberalism proposed as an alternative, we were ripe for ways of imagining sex that might begin to heal our wounds. Imagination was the key (as John Lennon was to claim, in a song too often misjudged as...
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A Fan’s Notes
... originality in a number of this collection’s pieces. In an interview with author Harry Mathews, she compares his novel Cigarettes to it; in an essay about filmmaker John Waters, she notes that he loves it...
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The Winner Loses
... luxury as rare as truffles in a city whose waters have been spiked with mines. So he selects a specimen from the city’s aquarium, the “famous Siren,” which, as it happens, looks a lot like a dead girl...
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IN THE ACT—A Sprawling Space for Performance edited by Corrine Fitzpatrick, Hanna Wilde, and Imri Sandström
... from John Waters and Bruce Hainley’s Art—A Sex Book: “Not that long ago I had my library catalogued,” Sandström follows up with a citation by Charles Bernstein from Marjorie Perloff’s Radical...
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May 29, 2012 @ 12:03:00 am
... Brooklyn, a lawmaker from Maryland, and a married couple from Illinois all picked up a hitchhicking John Waters over the past several weeks? Answer: Because the sixty-six year old filmmaker is...
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Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace by Kate Summerscale
...: Samuel Pepys had his famed journals of seventeenth-century life, John de Crèvecoeur his observations of the American settlements, and Lewis and Clark used them to chronicle their travails through the...
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Flatscreen
... his geekish ilk, illuminated screens have supplanted reality and left them ill equipped to navigate the rough waters of their world. Wilson’s wry bildungsroman is roused by Eli’s idiosyncratic...
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Ruins
... the eighteenth century, Hubert Robert painted the Louvre in ruins after some nameless future catastrophe, and Sir John Soane commissioned the painter Joseph Gandy to depict his Bank of England in...
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Jun 20, 2011 @ 4:00:00 am
...://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/> of FSG’s blog Work in Progress includes an interview with John Waters, whose book about his idols, Role Models, was recently...
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Beyond the Hero Syndrome
... heroically at Nasiriyah, it most likely was Donald Waters, a cook-sergeant in Lynch’s unit who, after running out of ammunition, was captured by Iraqi irregulars, and executed.” The Post eventually...
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Apr 21, 2011 @ 9:00:00 am
... the “murky waters of memories .” Laura Miller, on the other hand, explains why this isn’t the scandal
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Tangled Up in America
... Muddy Waters, Big Joe Williams, Mance Lipscomb, Robert Johnson, Sleepy John Estes or any other of his obvious and long-acknowledged influences, but choosing McTell seemed a little odd. Perhaps it...
