BY MARTIN KICH Here are the results of a Google search. You can, of course, click on any of the links, but just surveying the headings will give you a fairly good sense that Larry Wilmore did push the envelope on creating discomfort: Larry Wilmore Savages Media, Ignites Reporter Controversy During White House Correspondents Dinner…
BY MARTIN KICH This one is timely in a very macabre way: Ellis, Bret Easton. American Psycho. New York: Knopf, 1991. Brett Easton Ellis became an almost instant literary celebrity when his first novel, Less than Zero (1985), sold millions of copies and was adapted to a film released by Twentieth-Century Fox. Grouped with novelists…
BY HOWARD V. HENDRIX This is a guest post by Howard V. Hendrix, who teaches literature and writing at California State University, Fresno. He is the author of six novels and many short stories, poems, and essays. His novelette, The Infinite Manqué, was recently published in the May 2016 issue of Analog magazine. “Professor, how can…
BY MARTIN KICH Writing for New York magazine, Ann Friedman has provided the following list of “The Queens of Nonfiction: 56 Female Journalists Everyone Should Read.” The list is organized chronologically by the illustrative selections from the authors’ work and includes links to those selections which seem to have been chosen at least partly because…
“John Kasich Came in Fourth In A Three-Man Race Last Night” [RedState] “Kasich Lost to Rubio’s Ghost in Arizona” [CNN] Explanation: Many votes in the Arizona primary were cast early, before the Florida primary concluded and before Rubio suspended his campaign. “At Least Two of Five Women Deny National Enquirer Claims” [Ted Cruz…
For Easter, the New Yorker published an article by Jason Wilson titled “Eating the Easter Bunny.” The caption of the photo in the header functions as a sub-title: “A coveted ingredient in many global cuisines, rabbit meat has always been a hard sell among American diners.” Here are the first several paragraphs of the article:…
