#CVG2019: A Smeghead’s Guide to Red Dwarf
You need to attend this Red Dwarf panel or else Mr. Flibble will be very cross. Continue reading #CVG2019: A Smeghead’s Guide to Red Dwarf
Category: satire
The Last Days of Mankind: A Visual Guide to Karl Kraus’ Great War Epic by Deborah Sengl @ nyjb
Deborah Sengl continues the legacy of acid-tongued Austrian artists from Kraus and Kafka to more contemporary voices like Thomas Bernhard and Elfriede Jelinek. Continue reading The Last Days of Mankind: A Visual Guide to Karl Kraus’ Great War Epic by Deborah Sengl @ nyjb
Science Fiction Week: Starship Grifters by Robert Kroese
A starship captain who can’t tell the truth. An android who can’t lie. Hilarity ensues. Continue reading Science Fiction Week: Starship Grifters by Robert Kroese
Hitler Saved My Life: WARNING―This Book Makes Jokes About the Third Reich, the Reign of Terror, World War I, Cancer, Millard Fillmore, Chernobyl, and … Nude Photograph of an Unattractive Man. by Jim Riswold @ NYJB
“This isn’t the usual tearjerker cancer story. It is a gleefully offensive cancer story. It is the Blazing Saddles of cancer stories.” Continue reading Hitler Saved My Life: WARNING―This Book Makes Jokes About the Third Reich, the Reign of Terror, World War I, Cancer, Millard Fillmore, Chernobyl, and … Nude Photograph of an Unattractive Man. by Jim Riswold @ NYJB
American Odd: Pack of Lies, by Gilbert Sorrentino
This week I conclude my essay series American Odd by looking at Gilbert Sorrentino’s postmodern masterpiece “Pack of Lies.” Continue reading American Odd: Pack of Lies, by Gilbert Sorrentino
Buck Studies by Douglas Kearney @ NYJB
“Buck Studies” is “a potent cocktail of political anger and radical formal experimentation.” Continue reading Buck Studies by Douglas Kearney @ NYJB
Last Look by Charles Burns @ NYJB
“Last Look” is a cold indictment of pretentious frauds yet an intimate exploration of fear, regret, and failure. Continue reading Last Look by Charles Burns @ NYJB
