Bret Easton Ellis, writing in his essay collection White, on the social-corporate demand of inclusivity: Most people of a certain age probably noticed this when they joined their very first corporation. Facebook encouraged its users to “like” things, and because this platform is where they branded themselves on the social Web for the first time, their… Read More We Have to Be Liked
There’s doubtless a more-approved critical term for this phenomenon, but I only took one lit-crit class in college, and also I don’t care. This is my term, and I’m finding it all over Play It As It Lays, which I’ve mentioned before I’m reading. Observe: In the care she counted the stiff bills. They stuck together… Read More The Disassociated Protagonist
Or, How A Novel from 1985 and a Movie from Last Year are Related in My Head Had an opportunity to rewatch The Last Jedi yesterday and noticed something that made the plot make better sense. One of the things that annoyed me about the B-Plot was how Vice Admiral Pink-Hair’s escape plan ends up being… Read More The Detail You Missed
Last night, instead of going to sleep like a sensible person, I read Bret Easton Ellis’ “Thoughts on David Foster Wallace and ‘The End of the Tour‘”. In it, the American Psycho author holds forth on how the film “The End of the Tour” is a treacly one-note pile of horse flops that, with almost obligatory irony,… Read More When You Just Can’t Get into Authors You Want to Get Into
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