a suburban tragedy 21 Feb 2012 | 02:10 am

I might have mentioned before that I don’t believe in spoilers. As a matter of fact I sometimes read the last pages of a novel first just to see what to expect. Maybe that’s why I’ve never been able t...

extremely long and incredibly boring 9 Feb 2012 | 12:47 am

I both hated and loved Jonathan Safran Foer’s book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. I loved it for its experimental typography, moments of humor and for the story of the grandparents and hated it ...

academic rock’n'roll 8 Feb 2012 | 09:48 am

I’m not sure I trust Terry Eagleton, but I do like him. You gotta love a self-proclaimed Marxist that defends religion; there’s something in this combination that is so contradictory that it might act...

the cat in an empty room 3 Feb 2012 | 12:01 pm

I guess it’s not bad to be remembered in the sometimes poetically exhaustive words of Wikipedia, as someone who “compared Joseph Stalin to the abominable snowman. She also wrote about onions, cats in ...

musical crush 28 Dec 2011 | 02:29 am

craving some purposefulness 17 Dec 2011 | 12:00 am

A bit too simon and garfunkelly, but it’s one more piece in my puzzle about the changing ideas on freedom floating out there along with Franzen’s Freedom and July’s Future:

the future is weird 15 Dec 2011 | 02:03 pm

I want to hate Miranda with her theatrical weirdness and hipster clothes, I want to yell at her “man, put yourself together, get a decent fuckin’ haircut and some normal clothes so I can enjoy your da...

the power of power-point 11 Nov 2011 | 11:28 pm

Time is not on our side, sneaking up on us and grinding away our souls and bodies. “Time’s a goon” says one of the characters in Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad, one of the best reads I’ve...

f&*% the anxiety of influence 11 Nov 2011 | 06:37 am

The fear of plagiarism can be a paralyzing thing and not to mention pointless. It’s like being afraid of the air you breathe. Of course I’m not talking about the word for word type, that’s a crime, bu...

post in grup 5 Nov 2011 | 07:18 am

Noroc cu oameni care mai incita la posturi, in grup de data asta, ca alfel eu nu mai prea dau pe aici. Si inca un semn ca tre’ sa-l citesc pe Michel Houellebecq asta desi am impresia tot mai pregnant...