A Loneliness that Dominates: Fiona Maazel’s Woke Up Lonely
David Foster Wallace once said that good fiction “addresses and antagonizes the loneliness that dominates people.” Not every work of fiction can do this well, but when a story […]
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How self-help books have changed the way we think
The “self-help” book has changed how we think, and many readers are OK with that. Here are some of my thoughts on why. Over the last year, I’ve read a […]
Kindle Paperwhite: Best e-reader available?
A couple months ago, I praised my Kindle keyboard as one of the best e-readers available because of its content selection, accessibility options, excellent keyboard for annotations, and battery life. […]
“To my other favorite W. W.”: Walt Whitman’s poetic influence on Breaking Bad [Spoilers]
Warning: Major spoilers in this article! If you haven’t seen Breaking Bad through Season 5 episode 8, go check out some Walt Whitman poetry. Walt Whitman’s major work of poetry, […]
Music and Nostalgia: A Review of Mystery Pill by Kevin Davis
It’s been ten years since I graduated High School. I’m in my late-twenties, and I’ve spent too much time looking back on the past and longing for a better future. […]
The Pale King in the Margins: Wallace on Anxiety
It’s very difficult to avoid discussing the roles anxiety and depression play in David Foster Wallace’s fiction. Knowing what we know now about Wallace’s struggles with depression and what led […]
Reading in the margins, part 1: The Pale King
I’m going to try something new today, and I hope it will start the beginning of an interesting experiment. For a while now, I’ve been writing about how I think […]
On Reality and Fiction: David Shields’s Reality Hunger
When David Shields’s Reality Hunger: A Manifesto came out in 2010, it was met with some strong criticism about the role of fiction. Journalists, litbloggers, and book reviewers were split over […]
A Year in Big Books: Jonathan Franzen’s “The Corrections”
A Year In Big Books follows my quest to read novels that reach beyond the normal length (say 250 or so pages for the sake of argument). This is an […]
Review: Nine Inch Nails – Ghosts I-IV (physical disc release)
by Kevin Eagan I have to be honest, it came as a big shock to me when I first read that Nine Inch Nails would be leaving Interscope records, opting […]
