Posted by: chyma on: November 9, 2008
Once I spotted in the Urban Kvetch —a front corner in HEEB mag— this small criticism on Diablo Cody, I am having a hard time getting my mind off from her, for I can understand where the article was coming from. I actually cracked up on it, though I am in entirely favor of Cody. So I [...]
Posted by: chyma on: October 24, 2008
I thought I slammed the phone set. To follow the sequence of events or subjects of the conversation and examine how they shifted into another and progressed, I recognized I did not, he did; he hung up on me.
I got a call from my friend of ten years or so, who has been alcoholic and [...]
Posted by: chyma on: September 8, 2008
I was reading the second book of Molly Jong-Fast, the daughter of Erica Jong. This book, originally titled The Sex Doctors in the Basement, and retitled to Girl, Maladjusted in its paperback rendition, was actually hilarious. I flipped through her first novel that was written before she went to MFA in Bennington, and thought it was [...]
Posted by: chyma on: September 4, 2008
So far, I have encountered different kinds of people. One of them are those who, I’d phrase, are obsessed with Phillip Roth. It might be a generational interest, or Jewish one. In either case, it is enough to know Roth is the type of the author who makes the readers feel like literally worshipping him. I met [...]
