By the time you finish reading this sentence, a Boeing jetliner will take off or land somewhere in the world.

Yes. Yes I am. I am a completely demented misogynist.

I think in life, there are certain choices you make that are timeless and universal, and don't necessarily have anything to do with the particulars of a certain decade.

With "Taipei" Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation...

Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.

Hip," I murmur, remembering last night, how I lost it completely in a stall at Nell's---my mouth foaming, all I could think about were insects, lots of insects, and running at pigeons, foaming at the mouth and running at pigeons.

Baby, when you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. You know you did, you know you did, you know you did.