Estate Sale by Christine Butterworth-McDermott

My body is an emptied house. Here, you can cradle the soapdish of my skull. There, my sighs stand among the dirty glasses by the sink. My dreaming, tagged ceramic dogs priced well over value. Here, are the clothes I used to wear, rolled out on racks, on parade with high heels and earrings and the buttons you unbuttoned and the belts you unbelted. I … Continue reading Estate Sale by Christine Butterworth-McDermott

A Call for Reading Leaving A Doll’s House as a Way to “Honor” Philip Roth’s Death

The death of Philip Roth at eighty-five is symbolic of the continued tearing down of walls that have kept the old guard safe from too much judgment or criticism. The famously perverse Roth, whose perversity found him becoming a legend after the publication of Portnoy’s Complaint in, fittingly, 1969 (also the year Interview was started before it had to end), hadn’t released an incendiary novel … Continue reading A Call for Reading Leaving A Doll’s House as a Way to “Honor” Philip Roth’s Death

The Correlation Between Interview Magazine Closing & New York Being “Over”

Interview Magazine was once the very embodiment of everything New York City itself represented: prescience, rebellion, avant-gardeness, not giving a fuck, being anti-establishment, being ahead of the curve on all things art. Originally started by Andy Warhol at one of the peaks of New York’s artistic renaissances, 1969, the publication was acquired by art collector and billionaire (for don’t you kind of have to be … Continue reading The Correlation Between Interview Magazine Closing & New York Being “Over”

New Journalism Might Have Grown Old, But Tom Wolfe’s Brand Will Remain Forever Young

While Tom Wolfe was not a spring chicken by any stretch of the imagination, the news of his May 14th death served to accent a certain heralding of what they call the end of an era. That era, of course, being the creation and cultivation of New Journalism, and the writers that ascribed to it as freely and unabashedly as Wolfe himself–Joan Didion (above all, … Continue reading New Journalism Might Have Grown Old, But Tom Wolfe’s Brand Will Remain Forever Young