Tag: Michael Norris
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Crime and Philosophy
Michael Norris is always welcome here at Bill Ectric’s Place. He never fails to capture my interest and imagination with his essays. Here is Michael’s latest article, The Absurd Life of the Criminal, via Literary Kicks. Note: Jack Black, the author, is not to be confused with Jack Black the actor. Norris says: “I recently read You Can’t Win,…
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Berlin: Lou Reed’s Dark Poetry
Via Literary Kicks, Michael Norris writes: In 1973, as a follow up to his highly successful “Transformer” album, Lou Reed released the album “Berlin”. The ten-song concept album tells of the disintegration of a couple living in Germany. The couple, Caroline and Jim, follows a dark path that starts with drug addiction and descends into…
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Three for “T” (Norris, Mcneill, & Agnelli on “V” Author Thomas Pynchon)
Photo of Lauren Agnelli by Chion Wolf I’m reading my first Thomas Pynchon novel, V. and wondering if Pynchon created the urban legend about baby alligators being flushed down toilets and growing into big alligators in the sewers of New York, or did he simply take a pre-existing rumor and expand upon it. For that…