I spent the weekend reading a book I had hoped would piss me off: MFA VS NYC, The Two Cultures of American Fiction, edited by Chad Harbach. It did piss me off I...
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I’ve just finished Ron Sukenick‘s book, Down and In:Life in the Underground. It chronicles life in the underground from about 1948 to 1984. This is a great...
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Frigid Irony and Overheated Satire: Queer and Alone The first thing I noticed about James Stahs’ Queer and Alone is that the narrator protagonist is...
Read MoreThanks to Miette, the Marianne Hauser website is up and running, with some content. It is an evolving site. I hope to get others to contribute. From now on my posts...
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VICE VERSA One of the pleasures, many pleasures, of research is stumbling on the unknown. So, I’ve been reading a bit about the 1940s, trying to Understand the...
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I just found out that Judith Malina died on April 10th. Malina and Julian Beck started The Living Theater in 1947, an iconic institution of the post war, anarchist...
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THE MAN WHO CAN'T DIE
"Frankel once again produces a thrilling futuristic dystopia which includes white-knuckle action, lots of sex and drugs, and a post-menopausal white-haired research scientist heroine who is trying to save the world from her own mad genius." Buy on Amazon | Buy on Whiskey Tit
GAHA: BABES OF THE ABYSS
"It's hard to put down this book, full of Frankel's autodidact ramblings and wild flights of language." Buy on Amazon | Buy on Whiskey Tit
SPECIMEN TANK
"There's more truth in this book than anyone in the biotech industries would care to admit. Plus, it's funny as hell." Buy on Amazon