Because Miss Zafra is wickedly twisted.
The reason Twilight doesn’t work for us is obvious, and it’s been pointed out by many readers and critics. Vampire stories are intrinsically sexy—biting, sucking, blood, dread, excitement. Twilight…
This is a question of monumental import. I hope you will address it with the seriousness it deserves. What is the best hopiang mongo?
My friend Azon who grew up in Ongpin—her parents had a restaurant…
Thanks to all the readers who joined the LitWit Challenge: Cramming the Philippines. We asked you to recommend a book for the Jolie-Pitts to read on the plane en route to the Philippines, and we got…
In the dead of night when the bat flies into your bedroom window and transforms into a vampire, show him this selection of crosses by Hans Brumann. Wrought in gold, mother-of-pearl, metal, and wood,…
I was about to crack open Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel when I saw Richard Price’s bio in the trade paperback of Lush Life. Along with his literary accomplishments it notes his having been “co-writer…
My heavy hints landed solidly. It’s not even December yet and I got this pair of earrings from Jeffrey. Yes, that’s Elvis Presley.
Yesterday my sister went to Divisoria for her annual wholesale gift…
My favorite books of 2009. Most of them were not published in 2009.
One Sunday while prowling my neighborhood bookstore I spotted a youngish father and his 11 or 12-year-old daughter looking for a…
You can never have enough scarves. Raymond found this in ac632. It was the last one haha.
Melo had this idea last year: Why not post a list of the stuff you want to get on Xmas? It would eliminate…
Carnivorous centerpiece, La Cuisine, Makati
The Literary Review presents the nominees for the 2009 Bad Sex in Fiction Prize. They are…
As a columnist I get a lot of invitations to book launches and exhibit openings. I stick them on the fridge, and when I run out of door space I throw them away. But one invitation I kept for show and…
The Greenapple notebook looks like a Moleskine pocket carnet—from a distance. Instead of smooth black oilcloth its cover is a thicker leatherette. (Moleskine is on the left, Greenapple on the right.)…
Photos from the ATP World Tour Finals now playing in London The valedictorian always has the perfect hair and suit. This one’s corny but cute. Why do I think Novak Djokovic wants to be in show…
Either/Or: Sports, sex, and the case of Caster Semenya by Ariel Levy in the New Yorker.
In the (alleged) words of Vilma Santos: Been there, been that.
They’re Raymond Carver and John Cheever, two masters of the American short story (In the case of Carver we’ll have to read his recently-published Collected Stories, the versions he wrote before…
