Geoff Dyer's protagonists in 'Out of Sheer Rage' are procrastinators who get the real work done.
On April 15, the day Pale King was to arrive in bookstores, Hydra writer Anelise Chen received a sign from David Foster Wallace.
Way before the revolution in Egypt, bloggers and writers like Alaa Al-Aswany and Khamed Al-Khamissi were calling attention to society's ills through art.
In Manhattan, a Second Ave tiger is on the loose. In Queens, a balding middle-aged dad loses his job and spends a night experiencing hipster loft living. In Vietnam, it's all about Napoleon and KFC. Hydra's review of the best, funniest, most intelligent fiction of 2010.
Paul Chan's new e-book publishing house, Badlands Unlimited, has prompted both excitement and dismay. I interviewed Badlands' Director of Operations Ian Cheng about their project: what they hoped to accomplish, what they feared...what they did in the office on mescaline...
Santiago Sierra's art does not invite quiet, personal contemplation; rather, it leaves the viewer feeling used, debased, guilty, full of rage.
When people break up; risk stability for wild relationships; give in to desire, self-destruction, silly romantic notions; when people do things nobody can explain or understand, not even themselves; when people do nothing, just sit/sleep/stand/settle; run home to repent to their wives; when people complicate the comforting formula ; the
Throughout his career, Stanley Kubrick did extensive, obsessive research on all his films. In 2001, journalist Jon Ronson was invited to visit Kubrick's family home at Childwickbury Manor, where he discovered dozens of trailers filled with archival boxes. Some of the boxes had been unopened for decades. Ronson's resulting documentary, "Stanley Kubrick's Boxes," is
The show "Yacht Rock," created by J. D. Ryznar and Hunter D. Stair, is a fictionalized account of how seminal yacht rock anthems such as "What a Fool Believes," "Rosanna," and "Keep the Fire" came to be. The cast includes key players Michael McDonald (the husky-voiced baritone of Steely Dan and the Doobie
