A Blog About Books and Reading
A Blog About Books and Reading
Thompson's wild, violent, funny, anarchic book chronicles a motorcycle derby, an extended drug binge, and – most significantly – the corrosion of the American Dream.
"When I started in this business, there were literally hundreds of imprints, and some of them were run by people with extremely idiosyncratic tastes, one might say."
One need not agree with everything the author writes or believes in order to recognize the importance of his memoir as a document of the LGBTQ+ community's development in Canada.
"White supremacy makes for terrible readers," Castillo writes in this collection of provocative and confrontational essays.
Pringle's book tells the story of a dean at USC who was found in a hotel room with a twenty-one-year-old woman who had overdosed on illegal drugs.
The feminist and cultural critic's 1981 polemic reads as though it were written yesterday.
Despite some missteps and shots at easy targets, Parker's novels combine to form a provocative riposte to a culture that valorizes a certain kind of profane masculinity.
Fake news, disinformation, propaganda, and other elements of a culture that denies reality are corroding our society. These books show a possible road out of this situation.
Like Animals has a modernist sheen, providing a chaotic surface reflective of its protagonist's conflicted and disaffected psychology.
The notion that a televised competition could produce a "great" writer (always paying careful attention to how the producers define that notoriously slippery word) is questionable at best.