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...roving archival eye that selected and arranged these snippets is attached to the remarkable brain of novelist and critic Nicholson Baker. Baker occupies a curious position in American letters: part genius, part crank. His best works--his novels The Mezzanine and A Box of Matches, and U and I, his book-length study of John Updike--contain passages so beautifully observed and perfectly formed that they stick in the mind for years. His lesser works--the sweaty, oversharing sexcursions Vox and The Fermata and his tetchy political rant Checkpoint--contain passages you could spend years trying to forget...
...anywhere or reveal anything about their nature.The book is structured like a TV drama, incessantly jump-cutting between dramatic situations without hesitation. Bock’s ability to weave narrative elements is one of his greatest strengths, and he does it with a surprising confidence for a first-time novelist; at times he gives only a couple paragraphs of action before cutting to the next character. This rapid movement gives the novel the speed that drives it to its finish, despite its redundancies. However, the structure is marred by several characters who are introduced but whose paths through the book...
...Hear The Sirens” adopts the party-pop ethos of 2003’s “Dangerous Magical Noise.” The undeniable standout track is “Leopardman At C&A,” a sinister rocker with lyrics by graphic novelist Alan Moore of “V for Vendetta” fame. The song, based on the graphic novel of the same name, paints a savage, futuristic world of “barcode face tattoos,” “vegan cannibals,” and barbarians that...
Todd took a literary approach to guilt by exploring shame and forgiveness as a theme for Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky...
...show’s one-night-only stop at the Adams House Pool Theater. Every play and painting and song may be an attempt at art, but not all of them succeed. True art provides more than entertainment or information. There’s something else there, something elusive. Novelist Vladimir Nabokov argued that you feel art in your spine, where it prompts a “telltale tingle” of aesthetic bliss.In search of this tingle, I filed into the packed theater and took my seat. There was a golden pole on a stand at one side...