“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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AGAINST NOSTALGIA: Gary Indiana’s Unsentimental Journey
Reading reviews by the late author Gary Indiana during the second half of the 1980s, I figured the guy was a lunatic, to be honest. Vituperation and vendetta marked his tenure as art critic of The Village Voice, from 1985 to 1989 — alongside viperish wit and deadly-stiletto targeted prose. That’s why I never missed reading his column.Continue reading “AGAINST NOSTALGIA: Gary Indiana’s Unsentimental Journey”
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”
Mark Coleman 