On The Battle For Planet Flanagan
THE corniest conversation ever. Contrived, corny, tepid, corny, flaccid and oh, right, c-o-r-n-y.
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On The Only Murdering Murder Guide You'll Ever Need, You Murderer
What a corny post, kill better losers.
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On 2012 Predictions: Charting The Year Ahead
Choire - Not a sourpuss, but you come across like a lunk head. Do you wear a cheerleader outfit when you sing out the Awl party line? Wait, don't answer, yes, yes you do Mary Boy.
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On 2012 Predictions: Charting The Year Ahead
Cause and effect: The Awl get into the "Guess the Future Game" and becomes even more irrelevant. Wait. That's not possible, low can't get lower.
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On A Conversation With Chad Harbach, Author Of "The Art Of Fielding"
One can quite see the uneasy hand of author Chad Harbach as he attempts, and fails, to marry a ruined sporting game with the artful craft of writing. His cast of characters are unoriginal, whiny, middling sorts that one will encounter at an unoriginal coffee bar or a middling pub while slavishly patrolling Park Slope, Brooklyn.
That's what this extended short story is all about: Harbach's experiences as a Brooklyn carpetbagger and editorship at "N+1 Literary Magazine," which isn't so much literature, but a tiresome attempt at same. His awkward, banal presentation of "the game" is a five-hundred plus page embarrassment and the ball and the bat of it is as foreign to the author as is good prose.
Chris Roberts
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On What Movies Make You Ignore Everything Else?
"“It is such a bad site (The Awl) I can't defend myself but I have logged on this thing (shit) maybe ten times? Sorry.”