Clik here to view.
Pander
I had a friend who loved to speak didactically to us. He had gone to a good college and we used to discuss subjects specific to his interests, to relate to him. Then he would interrupt us to offer his...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Eternal Bliss
I was just about to eat my Nutella toast which I slathered completely with Nutella, because there’s nothing worse than a sandwich with a dry corner, or a piece of toast uncovered by chocolate, when a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What Is Metamodernism?
What comes next? If this is the question then the answer is prologue. It isn’t technology, not yet, because we’re still learning how to feel comfortable with substituting new processes for old. It...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How to Write a Novel
For the past eight and a half months I have been writing a novel. I have written a novel before, but it was not for the light of day. I did not know how to write a novel so I spent two years working...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Clown: Part 1, Coney Island
I met this guy and he told me he became afraid of clowns on Coney Island because that image of the laughing clown with the sharp teeth started there in the funhouse and bumper cars and he said I was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Clown: Part 2, Heinrich Boll and Pierrot
I recently read Nobel-laureate Heinrich Boll’s The Clown. This short masterpiece describes the plight of a monogamous clown whose wife has left him. He’s had a bad review and it’s become evident that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why Stephen King’s The Shining Is Good (But Ain’t Classic Literature)
I am twenty-four pages away from finishing The Shining, by Stephen King. It’s good, I gotta say. But it ain’t classic literature. I always disparaged King as a mainstream writer but in recent months...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why Deal Cocaine
If I were a coke dealer I would definitely wear a bigger earring. It would be a gold hoop about half an inch wide, and I’d probably get the other ear pierced too, like the boss in Pulp Fiction, crazy...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Metamodernist Imagism
Imagist, objectivist, metamodernist, they all share one thing in common: lack of association. I’m reading A Farewell to Arms right now, after having saved it for this moment for years. I’m struck by...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Brooklyn’s Greenwood Cemetery: Doin’ It Right
Cat was giving us a tour of Brooklyn‘s Greenwood Cemetery. I biked up to the neo-Gothic entrance of the cemetery to where Cat and Laura stood waiting. Julie rolled up, looking aggressive and badass...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How to Be Creative
Creativity is hard to measure and hard to generate. Society reveres the product of creative genius for centuries after that flash of inspiration first strikes. But no one really knows how to be...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Lovers and Gods and Blog Re-Design
Thanks be to God in the highest! I have a new blog design. My co-workers at Tradical 360, Caroline and Abu, helped me. It’s great because I plan to release a novel soon, and elements such as infinite...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How to Get Back to Bushwick
Utica Ave., more than 3 miles of this. Under a Florentine sky I saddle my beast and we ride into the early dusk. She is slow to get going but responsive to stop. I’ve had to take care of her often...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Subjectivism
By now you should be familiar with all my different modernisms: postmodernism, post postmodernism, metamodernism, etc. And while these all have bearing upon my work, I think it’s most important to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Infinite Jest is The Postmodern Novel
Half of Daniel Adler‘s college thesis was that Gravity’s Rainbow is the postmodern novel. In 1973, it epitomized a new form and style. Its allusiveness was sporadic and overwhelming and Pynchon’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
I’m Gonna Love Like Jesus
I’ve been thinking a lot about love lately. Both the personal microtial sense of man and woman, or friend and friend, and about the macro level of loving all of humanity. Like Jesus. I’m gonna be...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Portnoy’s Complaint: A Review
This book is outrageously funny, obscene, and smart. I learned about twenty new Yiddish words. Roth most closely mirrors my techniques of post postmodernism. And he gets to the heart of human...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The O.G.s of Bushwick
Bushwick is cracking lately. Arancini Bros. has killer rice balls next to Wreck Room, The Morgan’s soft opening this weekend was a success, and Cafe Gia on Irving and a row of other little restaurants...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Pale King and Post Postmodernism
We wait. Wait for moments where we’re no longer waiting, like when we’re having sex or are on vacation. And this goes on for about 80 years until we wait to die. How do we combat self-imposed boredom?...
View ArticleClik here to view.
General Advice in the Manner of Kenneth Koch
I have an immense collection of tennis balls. I had misplaced them a couple of years ago and now my great uncle, fine man that he is, has returned them to me. All covered in the same wiry green hairs....
View Article