Thursday, February 21st, 2008
R.I.P. Tatiana
This is the stuff that Joyce Carol Oates’ stories are made on: your son visits the zoo and a tiger rips his throat out. In case you somehow missed the media frenzy, this past Christmas day a 250-pound Siberian tiger (regally named “Tatiana”) leaped the 12-foot wall of her enclosure at the San Francisco […]
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Disposable Pocket
In a forum like this, there’s a certain pressure to be current. I should be obsessively analyzing the latest round of primaries, or yucking it up over Super Bowl ads. But I just don’t think it’s fair that the accident of my birth should prevent me from responding to something that has deeply irritated […]
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Playing Quidditch for the Other Team
(a.k.a. Why Rowling’s “Outing” is a Literary Crime.)
Umberto Eco wrote that authors should die when their novels are complete, so as not to “trouble the path of the text”—advice Harry Potter’s J.K. Rowling has clearly chosen to ignore. Not only has she thus far refused to die, but last October she stirred the cauldron of […]