I don’t write a ton of stuff on literary craft here. (I haven’t blogged a whole lot period in the last couple of months, I
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Larry Dahlke and I recorded this for The Missouri Review‘s Audio Contest. He plays the interviewer. I play actor Jack Renner, star of one of
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awY1MRlMKMc?ecver=2] Last year, much to my surprise, Donald Trump, in all his appalling ignorance, taught me what may be the most important lesson I
Our culture has a fetish for putting old wine in new bottles. We reboot old TV and movie franchises, comic books, games, everything. We crave both novelty and familiarity, and like to get both at the same time if we can. Yiannopoulos is that in spades. He’s the racist, homophobic, sexist uncle you dread talking to at Thanksgiving, but he wears eyeliner and pearls.
Trump voters are sad that people are mad at their support for the Orange Menace. From the New York Times: “We’re backed into a corner,” said
All That Man Is by David Szalay My rating: 2 of 5 stars I kept waiting for the irony to kick in. As I read
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJU_weYIh_4] Emma Green, whose job at The Atlantic involves taking religion seriously, wonders why Democrats don’t take religion serious and don’t talk to the 81%
I’ve never had a Tweet go viral like this before. My small contribution to the tweets of those angry about the GOP effort to repeal the Affordable
Donald Trump’s global business interests, which he refuses to abandon or place in a legitimate blind trust, not only raise the possibility of influence peddling
Hey, you. White dude with the red cap. You with the gun rack in your pickup’s rear window. You who live in a white rural town where