The Patricia Highsmith Papers
The Swiss Literary Archives have made their Patricia Highsmith collection available online here. (Thanks, Kate!)
“Let’s Break Some Rules”
Foldable Human talks about Fight Club.
“Jennifer Aniston And the Curse of Friends”
At Multiglom, Anne Billson considers Jennifer Aniston and her career. “But there are three things we should realise about Jennifer Aniston: 1) You don’t spend a decade in a well written sitcom without acquiring razor-sharp comic timing and an ability to give shading to characters who might in […]
“We Will Force Gaming To Be Free”
At First Person Scholar, Katherine Cross writes about “GamerGate and the licence to inflict suffering”: “GamerGate is neoliberalism’s distorted reflection of leftist terror: the lust for revolution, to be the Rough Rider ‘good guys’ saving the world by force if necessary, but with none of the obligations or […]
Never Goodnight is the Best
The Dissolve shares some panels from the source material for Lukas Moodysson’s Swedish punk rock coming of age story, We Are The Best—Coco Moodysson’s graphic novel, Never Goodnight, about her experience growing up punk in 1980s Stockholm. The Dissolve piece also links to an interview with Coco Moodysson at […]
Games, Time, Purity and Not Caring What Anyone Thinks Anymore
“But if there’s one thing that I’ve learned this year from the utter bullshit that I’ve witnessed and my own self-examinations of what I play and why, it’s this: I don’t care anymore what people think. I like what I like—often smaller, less sprawling games that focus on […]
The Cultural Gutter 