In her short story collection, the author knows that we long for love far more than we ever have love, even when it’s laying right beside us.
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Author Archives: Samuel Carlisle
“Dorky Pleasures”
Fiction
Broadcast’s Tender Buttons
“America’s Boy,” the most excitable song off of Broadcast’s newest album, Tender Buttons, must contain one of the very few examples of the Iraq war in art that somehow avoids a pro- or anti-war statement.
Lethargic Cool: Air’s New Album, Talkie Walkie
On their latest release, Talkie Walkie, Air has produced a firmly interesting and even at times exhilarating album.
“The Ether of Ambition”
Fiction
Muddled Brilliance: Finding the Significance in Martin Amis’ Latest Novel, Yellow Dog
Lapses in judgment from a major voice always seem the most confusing to gauge. Glaring faults from a lesser author, one whose renown is safely bound to expire or one who doesn’t personally speak to you, can be passed off with a guiltless lashing of criticism. But authors of more consequential ilk, ones capable of …
Musical Contrarians: Broadcast’s Distanced, Subtle Music
For a band that’s generally avoided major scales in the past because, as singer Trish Keenan stated, they kept coming out too happy (“like Britpop”), Broadcast certainly does something beautiful and with great depth with the happiness on their latest album, hahasound.
Sensitive & Witty: The Lackadaisical Charm in David Sedaris’ Me Talk Pretty One Day
The opening piece in David Sedaris’ Me Talk Pretty One Day offers one of the most endearing indications of a person’s sexual orientation I’ve ever heard.
Deep, Deep Books: Gary Wills’ Nixon Agonistes
I actually read this book: five hundred and forty-six dense pages revolving around the politics and presidency of Richard Milhouse Nixon. More accurately, it’s a study of the very widely disparate politics of the late 1960′s (from Classical Liberalism to Reagan-Goldwater Conservatives; from the Democratic Left to the Radical Left) and how Richard Nixon, a …