How Overrated Is Norman Mailer?

Written by Daniel Freed on December 7, 1999. Posted in Books, Posts

"Politicians, ugly buildings and whores all get respectable if they last long enough," Noah Cross (John Huston) said in Chinatown. Norman Mailer’s writing hasn’t lasted quite long enough to attain complete respectability–or to become classic, by which I mean (borrowing from what I believe was Mark Twain’s definition) that which is often praised but seldom
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Sean Hughes Is a Sad Old Bastard

Written by Tanya Richardson on November 30, 1999. Posted in Books, Posts

He’s also a total asshole. Although Hughes has creative carte blanche over there, he isn’t exactly respected. His fans are diehard, but most Brits seem to consider him a bit of a joke. On the back of his first novel, The Detainees (1997), one critic graciously compared Hughes to Martin Amis and Will Self. Hughes’
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Q&A With Perv’s Jerry Stahl

Written by J.T. Leroy on November 23, 1999. Posted in Books, Posts

Fiction Is the Last Frontier Jerry Stahl’s memoir Permanent Midnight (later made into that movie staring Ben Stiller) blew me away–its wicked humor, brilliant language, his breathtaking honesty in telling how he plunged from being a Hollywood tv writer to a low-down street junkie. I became friends with Jerry Stahl more than two and a
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Q&A With Samuel R. Delany

Written by Bob Riedel on November 16, 1999. Posted in Books, Posts

Bread & Wine by Samuel R. Delaney Juno Books, 44 pages, $15 Samuel R. Delany is a famous science fiction writer (Driftglass, Dhalgren), a respected critic and professor at the University at Buffalo. And he gives great head. I gleaned this last piece of information from the first of two extended essays in his recent
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A Conversation with Lee Stringer

Written by Jim Knipfel on November 9, 1999. Posted in Books, Posts

Wise Counsel Before Lee Stringer’s first book–Grand Central Winter–came out in 1998, his publisher, as most all publishers do, sent copies of the galleys around to other established and well-known writers, in the hopes of getting a blurb or two to slap on the back cover. It’s a peculiar and very contrived activity, this blurbage,
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Police State & Prison Time

Written by Megan Shaw on October 26, 1999. Posted in Books, Posts

Police State In Wyoming the Immigration and Naturalization Service raids the celebrity town of Jackson Hole, rounding up Latino workers right and left. Arresting them en masse, they write identification numbers on their forearms. Eventually the workers with clean legal status are released, but the undocumented are "transported off to detention in a manure-strewn cattle
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Why Did Augustine Really Hate Sex?

Written by Douglas Davis on October 19, 1999. Posted in Books, Posts

Behold the "vital fire" [male erection] which does not obey the soul’s decision, but, for the most part, rises up against the soul’s desire in disorderly and ugly movements…. –St. Augustine, "Contra Julianum," c. 429 AD We must conclude that a husband is meant to rule over his wife as the spirit rules the flesh.
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Q&A With Cuban Crime Novelist José Latour

Written by J.T. Leroy on October 19, 1999. Posted in Books, Posts

Between the Darts Q&A With Cuban Crime Novelist Jose´ Latour José Latour is a Cuban writer living in Havana. Akashic Books is putting out his new novel, Outcast (217 pages, $13.95). Publisher Johnny Temple asked me if I wanted to interview him. My only experience of Cuba was when I lived in Miami, where we
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Dennis Cooper’s Telling Interviews

Written by J.T. Leroy on October 12, 1999. Posted in Books, Posts

I first read Dennis Cooper’s Try when I was 14. It was the first book I ever completely related to. Bad shit happens to this kid, Ziggy, in the book and there is nobody there to save him. No social workers, no helpful teachers, it all just is. A kid making porn for Ziggy’s creepy
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Hitler’s Niece

Written by Alan Cabal on September 21, 1999. Posted in Books, Posts

A Family Affair Every victim eventually becomes a bully, and every hero eventually becomes a bore. The most flamboyant illustration of these axioms in this century would be the zeitgeist himself, Adolf Hitler. No political figure in history has gotten more posthumous media exposure, and no political personality has been more thoroughly examined. Mussolini was
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