Kurt Baumeister for Electric Literature August 17, 2015 Books, Reviews This Is Your Life was one of T.V.’s earliest reality shows. … Continue reading Honesty and All its Oddities: This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! by Jonathan Evison
Kurt Baumeister for Electric Literature July 20, 2015 Books, Reviews “The Necropastoral is a political-aesthetic zone in which the fact of … Continue reading The Sounds of Madness: The Subprimes by Karl Taro Greenfeld
Kurt Baumeister for Electric Literature February 23, 2015 Books, Reviews 1 Comment Name your topic, spin the wheel, and the Internet … Continue reading REVIEW: The Sea-God’s Herb by John Domini
Kurt Baumeister for Electric Literature November 10, 2014 Books, Reviews 1 Comment You wouldn’t think we’d find the apocalypse so compelling. … Continue reading REVIEW: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
KURT BAUMEISTER for THE WEEKLINGS Monday, February 22, 2016 Nuclear Nightmares If you lived through any part of the Cold … Continue reading POLITICAL TIME MACHINE
KURT BAUMEISTER for THE WEEKLINGS Monday, January 25, 2016 Scream, Dream, Nightmare There was a dream that was Rome. You could … Continue reading SCREAM, DREAM, NIGHTMARE
KURT BAUMEISTER for THE WEEKLINGS Wednesday, October 14, 2015 I. Like an electronic Benjamin Button, like a newborn at death’s … Continue reading THE BITTER AND THE SWEET: MY UPGRADE TO WINDOWS 10
KURT BAUMEISTER for THE WEEKLINGS Wednesday, July 15, 2015 Press Secretary to the Angel of Death Picture a fiery and sulfurous … Continue reading THE WORST PEOPLE IN AMERICA: WAYNE LAPIERRE
KURT BAUMEISTER for THE WEEKLINGS Saturday, June 13, 2015 SOMETIMES A LACK OF CONCERN is pure, an exact rendering of how … Continue reading SEVEN THINGS WE DON’T CARE ABOUT THIS WEEK: SEMI-CROWD-SOURCED, SUMMER BLOCKBSTER, TRIPLE CROWN, JAM-PACKED-WITH-CARING-AND-UNCARING EDITION
BY KURT BAUMEISTER for THE RUMPUS May 2nd, 2015 If you’re looking for commentary on the coming presidential campaign, television has … Continue reading THE SATURDAY RUMPUS ESSAY: FEMALE PRESIDENT? TV SAYS, “DEFINITELY, MAYBE.”