Art Bell's new memoir about his life and creating the TV juggernaut Comedy Central, is wildly funny but also knows how to be intimate and reach the heart of the reader. Creating mixed feelings of fleeting joy and indefinable sadness.
DeLillo tells a tale reminiscent of our current planetary stagnation with the post-modern approach of an unreliable narrator, yet, he still manages to display the penetrating gaze of a true visionary.
Why would any publisher fail to bring this romance author, one of the first to ever receive a multi-million dollar contract, back into the light?
'The Press Gang,' the new collection published last month collecting film reviews from the film section of the late New York alt-weekly 'New York Press,' is a welcome tour through an era that's now sadly past.
Imagine a world where people are no longer compelled to meet the expectations of their biological sex. Women no longer feel pressured to marry, obligated to be mothers, or compelled to be homemakers. Men are no longer pressured to be breadwinners or to meet masculine expectations set by our society...why does this world have to be imagined? Lydia Yuknavitch eloquently explores this in her latest sci-fi novel, Book of Joan.
True Detective Season 1 got us hooked on its plot twists and mystery, but it didn't do anything beyond that. True Detective Season 2 is where Pizzolato's talent for writing dark, melancholic and deeply human noir unfurls. Just like in his debut novel Galveston.
