Magnificent Octopus

Sprawled across Jackson Avenue is a larger-than-life lady, screaming her "I don't give a fuck" in chemical pink. We come up on...

My mother's a news junkie. It started a few years after my father died. About the time we moved into our new house; we got cable and CNN...

1.1 Satin Island , by Tom McCarthy, is one of my favourite books in recent history. 2.1 Some books I want to read cold. I don't want r...

I'm in New York City for a few days...

New York had always been a city destined for the rule of dandies, thieves, and men who resembled hardboiled eggs. Those who made its politic...

His eyes were like razors and white diamonds. They were impossibly pale, lucid, and silver. People said, "When Pearly Soames opens his ...

Happily his moderate fate was matched by his moderate temperament, so much so that he could not even imagine extreme deprivation or interest...

for every sweet lump of baby born that women croon over, is one vast rotten meat burning slow worms in graves of this earth — from Desolatio...