TWLS #4

ARMED FORCES
BY FRANKLIN BRUNO
Brilliantly invasive surgery on the album also dubbed Emotional Fascism

SAMUEL BECKETT (PHOTOGRAPH)
The B-dawg looks like a ravaged grandfather with inter-eyebrow crevice.

ROBERT BURTON
Melancholy bachelor, etceterative cento stuffer, hero to all who sigh

DESCRIPTION OF A SQUEAKY STAIRCASE, FOUND IN RICHARD HAWKE'S SPEAK OF THE DEVIL
"I might have been stepping on a succession of cats."

FICTIONALISM IN METAPHYSICS
EDITED BY MARK ELI KALDERON
Best essay is on the philosophy of mathematics. Go figure.

"IN THE ACT"
BY RACHEL INGALLS
Simulacra on the loose! This gloss on PKD anticipates Berger.

JT LEROY
Turns out Holden Caulfield's actually his "Mother." Top that, Pynchon.

MICHAEL MARTONE (PHOTOGRAPH)
The fictioneer's fictioneer resembles a plump Jeff Goldblum, sans dinosaurs.

MINOTAUR
BY BENJAMIN TAMMUZ
An oblique thriller, structured with flair. Graham Greene dug it.

NORWEGIAN WOOD
BY HARUKI MURAKAMI
Japanese maestro hits pinnacle with Magic Mountain cover version.