Nathan Goldman is a student at St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD, where he is Co-Editor-in-Chief of The Gadfly, the student newsmagazine. He is pursuing a degree in Liberal Arts. His fiction has appeared online in the Journal of Microliterature.
Ayiti is the first book I have ever read by an author whose work I discovered on a blog. Roxane Gay is a regular contributor to HTMLGIANT, “the internet literature magazine blog of the future,” which I unearthed (and obsessed over) in my senior year of high school, desperate to become a part of the…
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is post-apocalyptic, but, as has been exhaustively noted, it’s largely unconcerned with the cause of the world’s end. In this sense it breaks from the tradition of dystopia as political and cautionary. Though it earned McCarthy a spot on The Guardian’s 2008 “50 people who could save the planet” list, with…
