For those whose ganglia were formed pre-TV, the mimetic deployment of pop-culture icons seems at best an annoying tic and at worst a dangerous vapidity that compromises fiction's seriousness by dating it out of the Platonic Always, where it ought to reside.
タグ: writing, television, postmodernism, pop-culture, modernism, humor

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In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love.
タグ: everything, black, you, love
I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture.
タグ: too, any, become, try
Discomfort is very much part of my master plan.
タグ: much, master, discomfort, plan
The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I walk around.
タグ: memory, past, walk, me
The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.
タグ: black-and-white, you, politics, good
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