Filed under: Politics + Current Affairs | Tags: Bubble Gum, Christians, Codpieces, Comic Books, Concentration Camp, Consumerism, Dentists, Fresh Air, Gene Simmons, Germany, Immigration, Israel, Jews, Kiss, Kleenex, Marriage, Masculinity, Nazis, NPR, Patronizing, PJ O'Rourke, Rabbis, Radio, Rock Stars, Sex, Television, Terry Gross, This Is Spinal Tap, US, Yeshiva
http://www.erim.net/archives/gene-simmons-and-terry-gross-interview
Terry & Gene
Gene Simmons of Kiss takes on Terry Gross of NPR’s Fresh Air. He is patronizing, sexist, defensive, lewd, and otherwise obnoxious. Terry tries to grapple him back down to more usual fare, but Gene is on the attack, and on the defensive –and is purely baffling as well as intensely repulsive.
Filed under: Literature | Tags: Aleksandar Hemon, Alphonse Kauders, Balkans, Bosnia, Chicago, Immigration, McSweeneys, New Yorker, Ploughshares, Serbia
Aleksandar Hemon is a wonderful author – curious, engaging, and upsetting – but his best story, ‘The Kauders Case’ is not available to be posted here (though it can be found in issue 8 of McSweeneys). No matter, since The New Yorker & Ploughshares supply several of his short stories freely and easily. What a world!
Spring 1998, “Islands”, Ploughshares (and later to be included in The Question of Bruno), http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=4395
June 2004, “Szmura’s Room”, The New Yorker, http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/06/14/040614fi_fiction
November 2005, “Love and Obstacles”, The New Yorker, http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/11/28/051128fi_fiction
October 2006, “Stairway to Heaven”, The New Yorker, http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/10/23/061023fi_fiction
September 2007, “Rationed”, The New Yorker, http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/09/03/070903fa_fact_hemon
