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Chuck Palahniuk Gets Meta and Looks at the Legacy of Tyler Durden in Fight...
Chuck Palahniuk‘s Fight Club 2 begins ten years after Fight Club the novel ends. The artwork by Cameron Stewart is amazing: at times I feel I’m experiencing a movie. The set up scenery is dizzying. The...
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Paul Beatty’s Reluctant Hero in The Sellout—Reinstitutes Segregation and...
Paul Beatty’s brilliant satire, The Sellout is about a present-day man who accidentally acquires a slave and loves his former town so much that he physically redefines its town lines and reinstitutes...
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Patti Smith Writes About Nothing in M Train…So she writes.
Patti Smith spoke at a church in Berkeley and did an impromptu musical performance. Her self-deprecating humor was exquisitely charming. Her book, M Train, is about nothing. Really, on page one, first...
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Roxane Gay’s Hunger Helped Me Recognize My Goth Roots Stem from Something Darker
Roxane Gay‘s latest book, Hunger, opens up with “Every body has a story and a history. Here I offer mine with a memoir of my body and my hunger.” (3). Gay writes of being fat in a world that shames and...
View ArticleAn Unintentional Literary Pilgrimage of Los Angeles
I’ve been to Southern California many times, and yet, I’ve never quite seen the Los Angeles that I wanted to. As a book nerd, I’ve always dreamt of doing a book tour, visiting famous literary sites....
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