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Articles Written by: FRANCESCA MARI
In fiction as in life, the fundamental difference between the mainstream and the marginalized - between, say, "The Best American Short Stories" and "The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses" series - is that the indies have more sex.
And not just ...
Of all the service providers ever evaluated by Consumer Reports, doctors receive among the highest ratings. People, the magazine concluded, actually like going to the doctor: they like the bestowal of paper robes and the perfunctory poking! In a survey ...
Of all the service providers ever evaluated by Consumer Reports, doctors receive among the highest ratings. People, the magazine concluded, actually like going to the doctor: they like the bestowal of paper robes and the perfunctory poking! In a survey ...
Which first sentence is most gripping?
A) "There was a time, hard to imagine now, when the Japanese fell in love with China."
B) "We all knew the rules back then, in the summer of 1946: NFWIP, No Fraternization with Indigenous Personnel."
C) "The one ...
The Game, that infamous black-imitation-leather-bound book about the seduction community, is a novel of sorts. There is a narrative. But really the writer, Neil Strauss, produced a guidebook with a glossary. I remember--the book appeared in 2005--how ...
From FRANCESCA MARI,
The New Republic,
23 Sep 2008
At some point growing up I had an epiphany: The lies I told were always better, safer, if I added an odd detail or two. If I was going to lie about spending the night at Katie's, I might as well add that their calico climbed up into the microwave in ...
Words have become too self-conscious, too anxious, to sit still on the page. In a world blaring with YouTube videos and buzzing with blog posts, there is, especially in fiction, an apparent need to justify the extended use of text. Why write a story ...
From FRANCESCA MARI,
The New Republic,
12 May 2008
In Philip Roth's latest book, Exit Ghost, Amy Bellette has to be hauled out of the New York Public Library kicking and screaming. Her lover, the fictional writer E.I. Lonoff, isn't represented among a display of America's best authors, and Bellette is ...
From FRANCESCA MARI,
The New Republic,
18 Feb 2008
In
many ways this issue is central to Lewis Lapham, the legendary former editor of
Harper's. In 2006, Lapham carped to a
newspaper interviewer that in American universities, if a text doesn't reach "a
politically correct standard on one or more of [the ...
From FRANCESCA MARI,
The New Republic,
15 Feb 2008
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Ugh, I'm going to smack you. In some kind of virtual sense.
Am I taking crazy pills, or is that is the most ...
From FRANCESCA MARI,
The New Republic,
12 Feb 2008
