“Sometimes you remember certain episodes of your life and you need proof that you haven’t dreamed them.” — Patrick Modiano, In The Cafe Of Lost Youth We’ve all experienced a silver summer: a season or period in our lives that glows, inflamed with retrospective significance. While it’s happening we may sense some looming consequence, or not. OverContinue reading “Silver Summer: Exhuming the Buried Legacy of Lost Youth in 5 Novels by Patrick Modiano”
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Book Review: Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
Beginning with Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood and continuing with so-called New Journalism during the late Sixties, people tossed around the term Non-Fiction Novel when referring to book-length reportage written in modestly ambitious prose. Beginning with Catherine Lacey’s audacious novel Biography of X, published in 2023, we need to invent a new label, along the lines of FictionalContinue reading “Book Review: Biography of X by Catherine Lacey”
There He Goes Again
“The Presidential election is just too stupid to watch…you see Ronald Reagan in these neighborhoods with poor people and you can just hear him saying ‘Oh my God what am I doing here?’ But his hair looks really good.” — The Andy Warhol Diaries on August 21, 1980 My mom, a moderate-to-liberal Rockefeller Republican, intuitedContinue reading “There He Goes Again”
Mark Coleman 