Didn’t read it: The Novelist: A Novel, by Jordan Castro, a noview

Imagine that you wake one morning and at the foot of your bed is a glowing blue portal cut from the air, a shimmering gateway to whoknowswhere, you step blearily and excitedly toward it, it could lead anywhere, anywhen, turn you into anyone, the vibrating, shimmering edges seem to pulse with possibility, this, finally, is …

The Problem with Poker Face

As you may or may not know I am a huge Columbo fan. I've see every episode of the original 7 seasons 4 or 5 times each. I'd consider it one of the best shows of all time. You can read more of such gushing here. So when I heard that there was a new …

Trieste, by DaÅ¡a Drndić

I read this book back in May, and I have had to get some distance from it before I could write about it. It was very affecting, upsetting, and disturbing, as one might expect a book with such subject matter to be. The book follows the life story of Haya Tedeschi, whose son was taken …

The VVitch: Horror done right

A movie like this is something that happens only once or twice per decade. Ever so rarely, the stars align and a brilliant writer and a brilliant director, (in this case, the same man, Robert Eggers,) and a cast of brilliant actors all decide to work on, of all things, a horror movie. But those …

Tim Heidecker’s Fear of Death: a narrative on our current and future destruction

If you've heard of Tim Heidecker, you most likely know him for his slew of comedy shows, such as Tim and Eric: Awesome show, Great Job, Tom Goes to the Mayor, or the more recent: Moonbase 8. But he is also a very accomplished, though far lesser-known, musician. Fear of Death is his third studio …