The reliable narrator is a literary convention.
Dec 122012
Reading
The dead alive and busy.
—Vaughan
Nov 272012
Asking a native to recommend a translation is like asking a local to recommend a hotel.
Nov 062012
Fiction is like sugar — healthful when scarce, toxic in the great gobs in which we actually ingest it.
Oct 262012
The self-justifying utterances of murderers, thieves, cowards, blowhards, and madmen all enter the quote books under Shakespeare.
Oct 112012
When reading fiction, ask which of the villains you resemble.
Oct 082012
One reads so as not to believe everything one reads.