Chad Taylor

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Well if I know Dracula he loves sluts

The ungrammatical Kate Beaton does Bram Stoker. (She also does Marvel characters. Interview with Beaton here.) Happy Halloween...

Object relations theory

Freudian.

One down, one up

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(Napier; Symonds Street, Auckland; Peace Hotel, Shanghai; Paris)

Quote of the year


"Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in."
-- Thomas McGuane

Rocking interview at the NYT. The image (L to R: McGuane, Tennessee Williams, James Kirkwood) courtesy of a more urbane interview here. McGuane is a friend of Jim Harrison, my French publisher's favourite old guy.

The Girl Who Played With Phwoar

A major production and Maria Sharapova? Fortune has smiled on my home country. I love Masha because she's emotional: she has to lose a little bit before she can start winning. Which is risky when you're playing for three sets and fatal with a bung shoulder but she's been looking pretty good this year. I can barely watch her play now - my nerves can't take it - but I'd have her over the Williams winning machines any day.