[Ken] Kesey practices what has come to be known as gonzo journalism. The reporter, often intoxicated, fails to get the story but delivers instead a stylishly bizarre account that mocks conventional journalism. |
An able practitioner of glitz lit. |
As a born actress, she instinctively understands that the world is more than a stage-it is an audience. |
As a born actress, she instinctively understands that the world is more than a stage-it is an audience. |
His reserve of disdain appears endless. He could no sooner shut it off than a vampire could forgo his nightcap. |
No one has ever done anything too bad to be forgiven |
People once said they were "in" psychoanalysis, meaning they were committed to a long immersion. In a sense, they were writing their autobiographies. |
People once said they were "in" psychoanalysis, meaning they were committed to a long immersion. In a sense, they were writing their autobiographies. |
Some of the characters in the story had a fortune in fantasy lives. |
The San Francisco Bay Area [is] the playpen of countercultures. |
The short story is like an old friend who calls whenever he is in town. We are happy to hear from it; we casually fan the embers of past intimacies, and buy it lunch. |