"Many people believe that there is such a thing as fate, especially when it comes to matters of the heart," the magician said. He was sitting in front of a friend of his, a married woman. "Think backtothe day that you and your husband were married. Didn't you feel that ecstatic feeling that the two…
The Sexist Nature of TV Show 'Hung': Sexist Portrayals of Prostitution in the Media
I was thinking about the TV show Hung. It's a show starring Thomas Jane, who plays a Ray Drecker, a school teacher-turned male prostitute. Whether it portrays the life of a male prostitute accuratelyornot, I can't be sure. But it does a good job of glorifying the life of a gigolo. Thomas Jane goes around…
A Very Personal Novel
It has been ages since I have written here, and the reason is that I felt that much of my creative energy was better spent working on my novel. However, I came to reacquaint myself with the reason thatIstarted this blog to begin with: to document my intellectual journey, to document the reasoning behind the…
The first or the third: my struggle with my novel's narrative
Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, Han Ong's Fixer Chao, Martin Amis' Money, Bret Easton Ellis' Less Than Zero, The Fuck-Up by Arthur Nersesian and Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club. These are all influentialnovels to me, perhaps even models for me to study and aspire to. What do they all have in common? What these novels…
Bittersweet: A Love Story – Part One
After five years, I have finally begun work on this roman à clef as an exercise to get me back into writing condition, the same way a boxer or weightlifter gets into shape after a hiatus. It took me a huge portion of my day just to write the 3,300 words here, partly because it…
