Mary Gaitskill’s Bad Behavior
Mary Gaitskill’s debut story collection is definitely one of the best collections I’ve read this year. It’s a wide range of stories -male and female protagonists, 1st and 3rd person…
Maggie Nelson’s “Bluets”
Bluets Maggie Nelson “Bluets” is an essay written in short bursts, meditations in miniature on the color blue and all its Western connotations, on depression, on sex, on tranquility and…
“Naked Lunch”: In Defense of the Irredeemably Obscene and the Blatantly Pornographic
My friend told me that he read this book when he was 20, on the recommendation of a buddy who described it as his favorite book of all time. “I…