Ten years after 1967 and the alleged Summer of Love in San Francisco, on the opposite coast a different vibe was in play. A seemingly uncatchable serial killer known as Son of Sam dominated the news and a citywide blackout triggered widespread looting. Both were symptomatic of the rapidly escalating urban decay that defined NewContinue reading “Book Review: No New York: A Memoir of No Wave and the Women Who Shaped the Scene by Adele Bertei”
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Silver Summer: Exhuming the Buried Legacy of Lost Youth in 5 Novels by Patrick Modiano
“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”
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 