January 2010
3 posts
It’s Either Writing A Book Or Going To Target
The day Haruki Murakami realized he could write a novel was April 1, 1978. He was at the season opener of Yakult Swallows baseball team, and after an American player made a double, Murakami thought, “You know what? I could try writing a novel.” I can remember the day I decided to write a book too. It was November 3, 2007. I went to the Liberty Science Center in New Jersey with some friends for...
Never Read James Wood on Philip Roth While Trying...
In fact, in this later, plainer work Roth often makes subtle poetry by using ordinary words in unexpected ways, or by mobilizing cliché, but he slips these phrases past us conversationally, almost before we have noticed them. … [In Exit Ghost,] Zuckerman reflects that he cannot defeat a much younger man, a literary journalist named Richard Kliman, who is ‘savage with health and armed...
Missing Tapered Jeans and Crime Bills
The other day I was watching The American President. What I like best about the movie is the 90s version of political drama. Like my high school 90s experience, everything in the movie is way melodramatic for what’s actually happening.
Michael Douglas is trying to pass a crime bill. If only hand guns were our big problem! And Annette Bening is lobbying for environmental reform. (Well I guess...