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A Raisin in the Sun
You might have read this Lorraine Hansberry gem in high school. Walter Lee’s raging patriarchal propriety, displaced by a racist and hypocritical society, seems to answer the question (or call?) put...
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Kinski Uncut
I took this from the book swap at my NOVA school in Shinjuku. I swapped in a video tape of a Nick at Nite Cosby Show marathon. This was immediately disappeared to great controversy. I later found...
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James Weldon Johnson — Part I
Everything in Jacksonville, Florida should be named after native son James Weldon Johnson. Well, maybe not everything–that could get confusing. But as it stands, the only thing we Jacksonvillians...
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James Weldon Johnson — Part II
In 1912, James Weldon Johnson anonymously published The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. It was later republished under Johnson’s name in 1927, at the acme of the Harlem Renaissance. The...
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Moby Dick
Another one courtesy of the Andrew Jackson High School Library. Not really a straight up theft; it was a remainder that the librarian gave to me. This is one of the best books I’ve ever read, right up...
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Danny Rolling: From Hell–Part II
While I took an afternoon nap, serial killer Danny Rolling was killed by the State of Florida. Sixteen years ago in Gainesville, FL, Rolling went on a killing spree, murdering and mutilating five...
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Charles Bukowski
I must have been in the 1oth or 11th grade when I borrowed three Charles Bukowski novels from M***ael J***ings. These were: Women, easily my favorite and Bukowski’s best. I didn’t return this one. The...
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Walt Whitman’s Bathers
A strange and sensual riff from Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself – Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore, Twenty-eight young men and all so friendly; Twenty-eight years of womanly life and all so...
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In Which Bret Easton Ellis Finally Comes to Understand Women
Bret Easton Ellis took to Twitter last night to share some more of his profound insights. Here, he sets the stage for us and delivers a powerful thesis (all in under 140 characters!): And of course,...
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