L.S. Popovich's Blog

I’ve read all of Vardeman’s books. You should too. He is a unique and unusual author. Like some of his other long-form drama stories, this one is told entirely through dialogue. Actually it is a polylogue, a fusion of quirky voices discussing a bizarre situation. At least six main characters, with interludes containing new characters, […]

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Just Watch Black Swan I walked out of this movie. The plot crawls, depicting a young woman suffering a prolonged mental break. For a better treatment of this subject with more interesting imagery, watch Black Swan. The acting in this movie is convincing, but the behavior of the characters is erratic, confusing, and unnatural. Everyone is […]

An understated, precisely detailed story taking place in Japan, involving a household crowded with people and objects. The serious tone complements the everyday subject matter. A current of existential awe seasons an otherwise light tale from a talented storyteller. A reminder that clogged toilets, old video games, a peculiar fascination with gloves and such like […]

A New Type of Hunt, For Better and Worse This movie is a strange beast to critique. If you go in for a good time, looking for action and clever kills, you’ll get your money’s worth. But if you’re a fan of the Predator series, it might not scratch your itch since this takes the […]

Reading My Heart … is a bit like being lovingly mugged by a philosophy major wearing clown shoes. Homeless — the cryptic, multi-published, mononymous author — offers a novel that vibrates on the frequency where abject despair becomes indistinguishable from slapstick.  The result is a book that lurches, wheezes, and pirouettes through the heart of […]

To read Lautréamont; one is mugged by him in a mental dark alley, beaten with a cudgel of heresy, left marveling at the strange, beautiful bruises. If Pascal was a mathematician of the spirit, Lautréamont is the original gangster edgelord of literature: a refuter of Pascal’s humble trembling before God, adopting the very cadences of […]

I waited with trembling breath for over a year as the publication was delayed.  Since I’m always on the lookout for new translations of Japanese literature, I often poke around Dalkey’s offerings.This is a historical novel in which a former convict going straight gives keen observations, exercises patience in his dealings, works as a mechanic, […]

An epic account of a manuscript that might’ve never seen the light of day. Though Greenblatt greatly exaggerates the general influence of said document, the realm of lost classics, buried classics and unrecovered masterpieces has always fascinated me.He takes a Bloomian view of the canon, completely excluding all Eastern cultures from the literary history. His […]

A mysterious book. With no description on the back, and only a few hints in the product description on Goodreads, and no author profile, and no previous works by the author to compare it to, one has no choice but to leap in blindly. And it ends up being another dependably enjoyable read from the […]