The Moviegoer
“She is one of the village beauties of which the South is so prodigal. From the sleaziest house in the sleaziest town, from the loins of redneck pa and rockface ma spring these lovelies, these rosy-cheeked anglo-saxon lovelies, by the million. They...
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008
What makes a good short story? Seriously, I’m asking you. Because I’ve got no clue. (See: every short story I have ever written.) But then, I’m in good company: the general consensus seems to be that no one else does either. To quote...
Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are
As neuroscience rapidly encroaches on the speculative territory once occupied solely by philosophy and religion, books like Joseph Ledoux’s Synaptic Self, which attempts the unenviable task of explaining the emergence of personality via our current...