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Posted in Reviews on Nov 2nd, 2012
Separation is key here: white from yolk, cream from coffee, each square a pit to fall into, rounded on some edges, hard and harsh like the prongs on a fork in others. The lights flicker and pulse, the scraping of metal on metal a comfort of sorts. If they were to let us behind the [...]
Posted in Reviews on Feb 15th, 2012
Editor’s Note: Last night, at an exclusive party in San Francisco, the celebrated anonymous advice columnist of “Dear Sugar” finally revealed her identity: Cheryl Strayed! To help mark the event, we asked two of our regular contributors to write for the occasion. Today, we are very pleased to present the second installment: & somewhere [...]
Posted in Reviews on Aug 16th, 2011
May 31st – Loss gets weighed and re-weighed. August 14th – The lights go out on New York. September 11th – A childhood friend dies in a plane crash in California; I go on a first date with my future wife. Anniversaries are opportunities to recount, to share experiences. They are elastic tethers that draw [...]
Posted in Reviews on Mar 16th, 2011
On the morning of Friday, March 11th, Internet humor site The Daily What posted a link to “Friday,” a music video by Rebecca Black, a thirteen-year-old singer-songwriter from California. The song is a train wreck: nasal, flat, and auto-tuned vocals spewing absolute nonsense over a tinny backbeat of pre-canned drums and synthesizers. At one point [...]
Posted in Reviews on Aug 11th, 2010
Book IV, like the other chapters of Jenna Jameson’s autobiography, references a Shakespearean sonnet: “An Imperfect Actor on the Stage”. The admission of Jameson’s own shortcomings as an actress seems odd: there is a belief that porn is meant to be the unfurling of a fantasy—a ludicrous situation presenting itself, the fiction trope of a [...]
Posted in Reviews on Feb 24th, 2010
The first thing you notice when you step onto the machine is gravity. The floor slowly begins to sink from underneath your feet—the one thing we trust the most has become unstable. The floor is the floor is the floor. You must bring the earth up to greet your body, as if for once you [...]
Posted in Reviews on Jan 1st, 2010
Giorgio Armani’s Acqua di Giò pour Homme is currently the top selling men’s fragrance in the United States. The opening citrusy blast is pleasant and invigorating, and soon after the heart of the scent appears: synthetic jasmine lending a pleasant floral aroma, a bouquet of fruits gushing in the accord, and a well integrated aquatic [...]
Posted in Reviews on Dec 25th, 2009
The crossing begins at one o’clock in the afternoon; a good 23 hours before Washington ever stepped into a boat, though, perhaps, this is for the best: children have been up for hours now, and to ask them to stay awake in the Titusville cold a shade before the crushing disappointment of December 26th would [...]
Is this what it meant to be myself? There are arrows that exist at some points and occasionally others—there are swings of swords and finishing strikes with a vaguely Eastern flourish (not to say that the Greeks are not capable of flourish, they certainly are the sons and daughters of Helen), there are reasons to [...]