The ever-cresting wave of misogyny currently sweeping the American cultural landscape presses on, gaining momentum by the second, and it may not crash until its mass assures the drowning of every empathy-capable person in this […]
Tag: Writing
READ MY NOVEL NOW: Chill or Fraud? Chapter Two
For reasons previously iterated, I will be serializing my novel, Chill or Fraud?, in its entirety on this blog. You can read the latest version of the novel’s second chapter, “Gentrified Brooklyn,” by clicking the words below […]
Should Lena Dunham Have to Pay Her Art Slaves?
The question of proper monetary compensation for artists should have precisely nothing to do with Lena Dunham, whom is neither an artist nor a person raised by artists, but her momentary association has–albeit inadvertently–injected a semblance […]
Speculative Fan Fiction: True Detective Season 2
News broke yesterday that Vince Vaughn (The Dilemma) and Colin Farrell (Ondine) would be playing two of the four purported leads in the second season of HBO’s popular existential cop drama True Detective. According to a confused unpaid […]
READ MY NOVEL NOW: Chill or Fraud? Chapter One
For reasons previously iterated, I will be serializing my novel, Chill or Fraud?, in its entirety on this blog. You can read the latest version of the novel’s first chapter, “I,” by clicking the words below this […]
Mining The New Yorker’s Fiction Archives
Every story that has appeared in The New Yorker since 2007 is currently available to be read online, free of charge, before the magazine’s site institutes a pay wall later this year. See for yourself by […]
Highlights From James Franco’s New Short Story “Bungalow 89”
The literature of James Franco defies any and all analysis. It simply…is. His motivations baffle. His creations perplex. To understand the how or why behind his writing is to understand the language of beasts. Comprehension […]
How Ashamed About Reading YA Books Are You?
Slate.com, that infamous fount of intellectual discourse, published an article yesterday whose gist was that adults who read YA fiction should be ashamed about reading YA fiction. Considering the fantastic stupidity of that argument, Baby […]
My Chipotle Cup Flash Fiction
In an effort to promote the reading of literary fiction, ubiquitous burrito purveyor Chipotle Mexican Grill has started superimposing little short stories on its fountain soda cups. The campaign has attracted some of the “biggest” […]
baby pictures of famous dictators 