Thursday, December 24, 2009

American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis

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Among books, American Psycho is something of a dirty celebrity, a work whose dribbling trail of sleazy reputation precedes it. The one-sen...
Thursday, December 17, 2009

Neal Stephenson's "In the Beginning...was the Command Line"

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Tonight, I read Neal Stephenson ’s book-length essay, In the Beginning…was the Command Line , which on one level is a meditation on computer...
Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Working Stiff, by Grant Stoddard

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Working Stiff is an embarrassing book to carry around. The subtitle— The Misadventures of an Accidental Sexpert —is in a small enough font...
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Saturday, August 29, 2009

The Art of Tom Wolfe

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On Friday, I had the chance to read two Tom Wolfe books: The Painted Word , from 1975, and In Our Time , from 1980. Both are short, right ar...
Monday, August 17, 2009

How Sex Works: Why We Look, Smell, Taste, Feel, and Act the Way We Do

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How Sex Works is a new book by Dr. Sharon Moalem, first released in April of this year. I should say up front that it’s pretty good. I’m pu...
Thursday, August 13, 2009

Ravelstein, by Saul Bellow

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I first heard of Ravelstein when it came out in the year 2000, back in my senior in high school. The term ‘roman a clef’ would have been un...
Tuesday, August 11, 2009

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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Back in high school, before I found out that it was fashionable to categorize my reading style as Marxist, feminist, reader-response etc., I...