I wonder how many people, like me, first read David Foster Wallace’s “Good People” and then Rebecca Mead’s piece on an Apocalypse conference and thought about this? The unrejectability of Wallace’s piece derives, pretty clearly, from its serious treatment of the umwelt of the non-New Yorker-readers. Mead’s piece balances.
On a recent flight from Charlotte to Greenville, I counted six of these, described memorably in this Rolling Stone article. When I lived in Florida, I was fond of reading a magazine called Woods and Water or something like that, targeted at the hunting and fishing communities. One of the ads in the back described [...]
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I’ve acutally always thought that Roger Ebert is a sensible critic with good taste. I just watched Dark City, however, and I’m surprised by the extent to which he overpraises it. To me, it seemed a dull exercise in neo-gnosticism (pick a PKD volume at random, almost, for a more intellectually intriguing treatment of the [...]
I heard an immense caterwauling of sirens last night, and I read this morning’s paper to find out that there was a coordinated arson/break-in attack on three Baptist churches. The Memorial Baptist Church suffered severe damage. There was a recent outbreak of these in Southern Alabama, which turned out to be the work of Birmingham [...]
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Probably, is that he unsuccessfully attempted to commission Austin O. Spare, unusually interesting occultist, for a portrait in 1936 (ODNB).
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Clancy and I saw The Prestige in the worst theater in the world on New Year’s Eve. I had read the considerably more interesting book (how could you eliminate the frame story?) immediately beforehand, and I find it curious that Michael Wood, who’s reviewed both the the film and Against the Day in the LRB [...]
