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Tweet I. Where Poe’s arduous Arthur Gordon Pym is concerned, a completely satisfactory answer to a simple central question would push into proper position the tumblers of the complex combination lock its text has always seemed: is Pym constructed as a work of realism or as fantasy? It seems all critical analyses of . . . → Read More: Magical Realism’s More Complete Mimesis in “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym” Tweet …and somehow I forgot to mention it on my own fucking webpage. I tweeted it. I Facebooked it. I posted it in the obscurer depths of a Nine Inch Nails message board, but I never mentioned that the interview is actually available online. Below, is the full-text. But I think the magazine probably wants you . . . → Read More: Amoskeag Interview Went Live… Tweet I know, I know: I’m rather late. Still, I beat the Grammys. But before it becomes as dangerously irrelevant, I present to you the Top 10 Albums of 2011. Last year, I bought 41 new LPs and screened a few others. Virtually every artist on my list of favorites released an LP, yet six of . . . → Read More: 10 Best Records of 2011 Tweet Hi, kids. If you’ve landed on this website and read past its front page, there’s at least a 40% chance that you’re a nerd. And I offer that epithet in complimentary fashion—nerds are my people. We’re as much a family as any political party, any college fraternity, any professional football team or its fans. We’re . . . → Read More: Nerd Flirting Tweet I’ve been quiet awhile due to less than thrilling real-life concerns. Nothing exciting has kept me away from writing—a bloody shame, really, because the bit of fecund yin hidden in the aggravatingly dramatic yang that is often existence is the potential to later retell the tale to any number of ends: entertainment, education, commiseration, &c. . . . → Read More: The 20 Best Tracks of 2011 (So Far) Tweet The multiplatform, multimedia extravaganza that was 2007’s Year Zero Alternate Reality Game brought a new creative medium to the attention of thousands, perhaps millions—people who, by and large, had no previous experience with such things. Alternate Reality Games are curious things: interactive, but largely constructed as a vector to deliver an already composed narrative to . . . → Read More: Another Version of the Truth: The Alternate Reality Game as Ergodic Literature Tweet I wanted to beat Pitchfork and Stereogum to something, for once. Last Thursday night, I found myself unable to look away from the gifted video for Radiohead’s “Lotus Flower” which, as it’s just a bowler-hatted Thom dancing like a drugged-out maniac, should not be as compelling as it is. Nevertheless, I watched it a dozen . . . → Read More: Review: The King of Limbs (Radiohead) Tweet In January second’s New York Times article, entitled “Want a Hit? Keep It Simple,” Jon Pareles argues that, increasingly, “indie rock” seems to be suffering what Lisa Simpson would call “a dumbening.” If it’s somehow escaped notice, I am, generally speaking, never hesitant to accuse something of being preposterously stupid, degradingly clichéd, or so terrifyingly . . . → Read More: Part II: In Which I Take Umbrage with Assertions of Dumbening in “Indie Rock” Tweet Check this out: How Dare a Museum Offer an Eclectic Selection of Art?! Asked in the article is this question: “If it’s wrong for the government to take the taxpayers’ money to promote religion, why is it OK to take taxpayers’ money to assault religion?” I’m going to sit down with all the folks . . . → Read More: “It’s a Bad Week for Rationalism,” or “Why I’m an Antitheist” Tweet Interstitial art of any sort—that art which falls between the established boundaries of popularly accepted genres or even entirely disparate artistic media—is and has always been difficult to process for critics and audiences alike. Sterne’s Tristram Shandy—a text some might dub the most famous work in the history of interstitial literature—was, for instance, less than . . . → Read More: The Reunion of Broken Parts: On the (Inexplicably) Underhyped Writing of Alex Rose |
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