Freddy Got Fungooed: Widespread Panic by James Ellroy (with John “Son of Griff” Anderson)
For all readers and Ellroy fans out there: John and Grant co-hosted a LIVE reading…
The Spiral: Avathoir and wallflower Talk About Thomas Pynchon, 11: Bleeding Edge (and a Retrospective on Everything Else Too)
“I can’t really tell objectively how sorry I should feel for myself. I don’t give…
Year of the Month: GIRL TROUBLE, by Holly Goddard Jones
We live, I’ve heard, in a civilized country, in a civilized time. – “Parts,” by…
Hold for Probable Nightmares: Son of Griff and wallflower Talk About James Ellroy’s THIS STORM
DOCUMENT INSERT: 4/25/1940. New English Weekly, review of The Thirties, authored by ERIC ARTHUR BLAIR…
Historical Fiction Corner: WATERGATE by Thomas Mallon
A moody Republican, long considered a national joke, is elected President of the United States…
Blind Reads: Peace by Gene Wolfe
Blind Reads: In which wallflower and Avathoir read each other’s favorite books without knowing a…
Dissolve On (7/2/2017-7/8/2017)
When the late, great website The Dissolve ended operations, its commenting community had The Solute…
I Am Made of Words: Zero K by Don deLillo
In Underworld, Don deLillo tried to do what John le Carré did with The Secret…
Decomposing in Real Time: Waste by Andrew F. Sullivan
There are only victims. (last line of Scott Turow’s Pleading Guilty) The modern industrial age…
Always Business, Always Personal: John Gregory Dunne’s Monster: Living Off the Big Screen
But that is the writer’s life. You write. You finish. You start over again. (Dunne,…