Criticism-in-finity!
Posted in Reviews on Apr 29th, 2010
Remember that line Kevin Spacey delivers towards the end of The Usual Suspects re: Keyser Söze that goes something like ‘the greatest trick the devil ever pulled is to convince the world that he didn’t exist’? Well, marketing’s kind of like that. An anecdote to illustrate: Recently while I was cooking some Top Ramen (Yes, [...]
Posted in Reviews on Apr 21st, 2010
Certain nonfictions circle around facts without settling on any one cause-and-effect relationship between them, listing without drawing conclusions, as if the facts were more like water vapor on a misty day in Seattle than like asphalt under their feet. This raises questions, we find, about how facts do things or don’t. How they function. Writers [...]
Posted in Reviews on Apr 18th, 2010
Several years ago, a friend of mine, living in Manhattan and plagued by intense social anxiety, made a decision which unexpectedly changed the course of her life: she purchased a small and striking dog. The dog accompanied her everywhere: to her nannying gigs, her neighborhood bars, her friends’ apartments. He was a companion, a confidante, [...]