New Romanticism is attentive to those transcendent wants for things that will truly fulfill us regardless of time, place, or social circumstance.
Passing your eyes over those first, electric sentences, it occurs to you that his readers are still catching up.
When my grandmother died, I too had this impulse to record everything she said, and everything said about her death.
Men in these books are under siege by a series of emasculating forces, which I have loosely narrowed down to an unholy trinity: cancellation, the body, and the father.
Writers, like lone gunmen, are compulsive worldbuilders. They write their own past, present, and future. DeLillo has described himself as a man in a small room.
I now realized that for thirty years I'd had an imaginary Pietsch perched on my shoulder, and as I reworked sentences I kept (unconsciously) turning to him and asking, "How about now? Would you take it now?"
Queering the relationship between form and genre, troubling the notion of what makes a novel, working through questions of queerness and bodies and desire and space and language on the page.
I left the bank fully and completely realized as ELVIA INC, annual projected revenue: one million dollars.
American cinema is nothing short of the dramatization of the desires and fears of an entire people.
Drug-eating is now drug consumption. Where "eating" implies a loamy process of co-constitution, "consumption" is a rote expression of your identity.
God s dead like the dream of American industry. God is dead like Gen-X self-sufficiency, Millennial irony, and Gen-Z cringe. God is dead unless you force her to live.
If I weren't so busy laughing from a place of presumed safety, what character would I play?