Here, of course, lies the biggest difference between a successful interviewer and an unsuccessful one: the successful one makes the interviewee feel as though he or she is interested in the answers. T...
But it would be far more effective—and considerably more inventive—to enact that same process with a text that has no preexisting meaning. A book that is just a book: the forgotten airport bestseller...
Because when push comes to shove, we really don't want to have sex with our friends... unless they're sexy. And sometimes we do want to have sex with our blackhearted, soul-sucking enemies... assuming...
The practical reality is that any present-tense version of the world is unstable.
The defining line from Frank Herbert’s Dune argues that the mystery of life is not a question to be answered but a reality to be experienced. My fantasy offers the opposite. Nothing would be experienc...
Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary. The postmodern mother of invention is desire; we don’t really need anything new, so we only create what...
My personal war against the so-called soccer menace probably reached its peak in 1993, when I was nearly fired from a college newspaper for suggesting that soccer was the reason thousands of Brazilian...
Punk was perfect for lazy people, because anyone could do it--you didn't even need to know how to play your instrument, assuming you knew how to plug it in. There was really no difference between Sid...