Content about Postmodernists
“Basic Training,” a short, 22,000-word novella released through Amazon’s Kindle Singles program, is the newest posthumous release by acclaimed novelist Kurt Vonnegut. Although known primarily for his satire and science fiction work, “Basic Training” is more of a coming-of-age story than anything else. Considering that it was written at the start of his career, this genre is perhaps the most appropriate for his promising beginnings and eventual success.
Most mornings, Sister Edgar and Sister Gracie make the drive “past the monster concrete expressway into lost streets” to an abandoned section of South Bronx known in “jocular police parlance” as the Bird. Avian wildlife find homes here among “hillocks of slashed tires laced with thriving vine” and demolished buildings strewn with needles and lined with derelicts and junkies. Edgar and Gracie go about their good work in the slum, distributing food and scouting salvageable junk to fund their humanitarian efforts.
Almost three weeks after the attacks in Norway, UT Journalism professor Robert Jensen ponders about the nature of terrorism and the influence of media on it.
On July 26, Larry Flynt held a press conference to talk about his new book, "One Nation Under Sex." Read the full story here.
Marshall Newman from the Frontier Brothers gives a preview of a song from his new album.
Bureaucracy, as a concept, could be described as otherworldly. In its grip, a bureaucracy has undeniable power, akin to weaponized tediousness, to make you understand both its terrible largeness and your insignificant smallness. To reason with a bureaucracy is to fight dragons. To write a novel about one, specifically the great-granddaddy of them all, the Internal Revenue Service, probably merits the author to be immortalized in verse and song.
