Tag: books
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Needful Things, Shameful Things
[Spoiler-free section] As a Constant Reader, my journey through Stephen King’s bibliography has been as meandering as anyone else’s. Early stuff to late stuff, coke stuff to sober stuff, the beautiful and the rotten. But in my reading of Needful Things, I realized about halfway through that I had never gotten around to his cynical stuff. A…
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Review: The Talented Mr. Ripley
Should you be angry, or afraid? The varied and disparate covers of Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley seem to playfully mirror the types of story Tom Ripley would choose to believe about himself. A man lost in a void, a man pining for an identity capable of love, a man overlooking Mongibello, Italy. In the most…
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The Chair Company, Twin Peaks, and The Crying of Lot 49
There is a certain focal point that separates what I would call auteur post-structuralists (like Lynch, Pynchon, and (absurdly) Robinson) from run of the mill postmodernists. And that focal point is alienation. For the post-structuralists, alienation is a way of life. Or rather, it is the way of life (of the human subject). Pesky orders…
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