(Articles sorted by the date they were added to The eXiled archives, not their original publish dates.)
I can tell you God’s plan for this place very concisely: God created this place as a critique of me. – John Dolan I hate this time of the year. Being stuck in the Moscow heat is like unpaid overtime…
Posted on: May 22nd, 1997 | Comments (1)
Whenever they travel overseas, most Americans are aware that the locals hate them, but few know why. Usually Americans ascribe bad blood to jealousy. Iranian flag-burning mobs? Uneducated, unfortunate and misguided people, afraid of progress. Okinawans? Sore losers, still mad…
Posted on: May 22nd, 1997 | Comments (2)
This is the cover of Issue # 8 of The eXile, published May 1997.
Posted on: May 22nd, 1997 | Leave Comment
“A Million Little Pieces” by James Frey. Doubleday 2003, $22.95 *** This is the worst thing I’ve ever read. A Million Little Pieces is the dregs of a degraded genre, the rehab memoir. Rehab stories provide a way for pampered…
Posted on: May 29th, 2003 | Comments (7)
“My Friend Leonard” James Frey Riverhead Hardcover 2005 $24.95 See it on Amazon.com… James Frey is a liar. A bad one. And hugely successful. You can discover just how bad a liar he is by reading his second novel, My…
Posted on: September 9th, 2005 | Comments (1)
I boarded my platzkart wagon heading out of Izhevsk feeling like I could die. And that was BEFORE entering platzkart–the infamous Russian third-class railway carriage. The train car, packed to the brim with foul-smelling Izhevsk hicks, was like one giant…
Posted on: December 15th, 2006 | Leave Comment
They asked me to think about how war would change over the next 150 years for the eXile’s anniversary issue. Weird to think about it: wars going on when you’re dead. My doctor told me it’s maybe 15 more years…
Posted on: September 19th, 2002 | Comments (2)
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