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  • Jay McInerney’s “The Last Bachelor”

    Jay McInerney’s “The Last Bachelor”

    7th January 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    Of all the things that the world could do with a few hundred thousand less of, stories about naval-gazing, drug-using Manhattanite writers written by naval-gazing, drug-using Manhattanite writers should be amongst the first to be tossed in the fire.

    There seems to be vast swathes of literature these days that stick firmly to the advice “write what you know” and now all the characters that get the good lines, the funny...

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  • McSweeney’s Small Chair: The Literary Pick of 2009

    McSweeney’s Small Chair: The Literary Pick of 2009

    14th December 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    McSweeney’s has long been known for its innovation and imagination in an age-old and well-established industry, and subscribers to their flagship publication, Timothy McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, will already know what forms this imagination can take.

    For example, Issue 17 of this inventive literary journal came disguised as a bunch of post - stories, essays and other curiosities were presented as a series of letters, envelopes, magazines and junk mail circulars. Issue...

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  • The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance

    The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance

    26th October 2009 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    Mormonism has a lot to thank Scientology for.

    Ever since Tom Cruise decided to bounce up and down on Oprah's sofa, the Mormons - once the butt of pretty much every religious joke going - have now found themselves almost wholly guarded from comic crossfire by the Scientologists. In fact, the only person who is still making jokes at the expense of Mormonism in 2009 is Elna Baker.

    This is not to say...

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