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How do you like your blue eyed boy Mr. Death?
06 June 2008
"In the hands of a novelist, the most abnormal actions can be used to illuminate what we call the normal world. Only the hopelessly illiterate are unaware of this fact and waste time arguing about it."
06 June 2008
"In the hands of a novelist, the most abnormal actions can be used to illuminate what we call the normal world. Only the hopelessly illiterate are unaware of this fact and waste time arguing about it."
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Not stirred
31 May 2008
"The greatest tribute you can pay to a secret agent is to take him for a moron. All he has to do is to make sure he doesn't act too exactly like one."
31 May 2008
"The greatest tribute you can pay to a secret agent is to take him for a moron. All he has to do is to make sure he doesn't act too exactly like one."
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Touch Sinister
28 May 2008
"There is a real world, but it is beyond this glamour and vision, beyond...them all as beyond a veil. I do not know whether any human being has ever lifted that veil."
28 May 2008
"There is a real world, but it is beyond this glamour and vision, beyond...them all as beyond a veil. I do not know whether any human being has ever lifted that veil."
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Substance
11 May 2008
"At the heart of daily punishment and sufferings, in the very wheels of encroaching mediocrity, are found both the keys and the doors to inner worlds."
11 May 2008
"At the heart of daily punishment and sufferings, in the very wheels of encroaching mediocrity, are found both the keys and the doors to inner worlds."
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glitter, doom, the night sky & other waitsian b.s.
11 May 2008
"People Envy Happiness Dogs Though Sense Courage Knowing Jubilation Means Better Ass-ets. Pretty profound. "
11 May 2008
"People Envy Happiness Dogs Though Sense Courage Knowing Jubilation Means Better Ass-ets. Pretty profound. "
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the immoralist
06 May 2008
"Schiele was one of the first to tear back the frocks and show how it was rotten to the core, teetering on the brink of destruction."
06 May 2008
"Schiele was one of the first to tear back the frocks and show how it was rotten to the core, teetering on the brink of destruction."
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how's my blogging?
28 April 2008
"The highlight of Memorabilia for me, though, had to be the fourteen illustrations from Cruiskeen Lawn, drawn by O Nuallain under his pseudonym of "Kilroy" (what is it about these boys and their aliases?) with accompanying text by O'Brien, colourful illustrative explosions bringing out the best of Myles."
28 April 2008
"The highlight of Memorabilia for me, though, had to be the fourteen illustrations from Cruiskeen Lawn, drawn by O Nuallain under his pseudonym of "Kilroy" (what is it about these boys and their aliases?) with accompanying text by O'Brien, colourful illustrative explosions bringing out the best of Myles."
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c*** fiction
27 April 2008
"Cult books include some of the most cringemaking collections of bilge ever collected between hard covers. But they also include many of the key texts of modern feminism; some of the best journalism and memoirs; some of the most entrancing and original novels in the canon."
27 April 2008
"Cult books include some of the most cringemaking collections of bilge ever collected between hard covers. But they also include many of the key texts of modern feminism; some of the best journalism and memoirs; some of the most entrancing and original novels in the canon."
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REVIEWS
Review: Lounge Lizard
"It's nothing less than what we have grown to expect from an uncompromising voice," writes Tony O'Neill.
"It's nothing less than what we have grown to expect from an uncompromising voice," writes Tony O'Neill.
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Review: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Fuku Versus Zafa: the Slow, Wondrous Rise of Junot Diaz.
Fuku Versus Zafa: the Slow, Wondrous Rise of Junot Diaz.
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WRITING
FEATURES
The Filth & the Purity: An interview with Sein und Werden's Rachel Kendall
"I like the grey concrete of metropolis, the stink of the opium den, the ravings in the lunatic asylum. There really is little difference between good and evil when you cut out the fluff in between."
"I like the grey concrete of metropolis, the stink of the opium den, the ravings in the lunatic asylum. There really is little difference between good and evil when you cut out the fluff in between."
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