Something Under the Bed Is Writing

A Satiric Survey of Contemporary American Fiction, and Contemporary America. Both.

Literature is a hatchet with which we chop at the frozen seas inside us. -Franz Kafka

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Something Under the Bed Is Writing? Huh. What's It Writing?

Well, it's apparently writing this blog. And this blog... this blog begins with the hypothesis that there is something deeply wrong with Contemporary American Fiction. That it is tragically anemic, or at the very least that it is suffering. Unnecessarily. The goal of this blog is either to a) prove that hypothesis wrong; or b) mock that suffering. We're not sure which.

How could C.A.F. have something "wrong" with it? How could it "suffer" or be "tragically anemic"?

We're not really sure. What if we changed it to: This blog begins with the hypothesis that there is something Deeply Weird going on in Contemporary American Fiction. Would that be better?

That Would Be Fine.

OK, phew. Basically what we do here is we write book reviews. And sometimes reviews of other things, like movies, or TV shows. And sometimes we just write about things that strike us as interesting or annoying. Like each other.

Who's "We"?

Us, the reviewers. There's a bunch of us. We all have nothing in common except that everyone who writes for us hates each other. (Except for Donald Hipsterdoofus and Richard Schmooze, who are friends, and Tamilda the Genius 10yr Old and Percy Bysshe Shelley, who are on the same t-ball team).

Tamilda the Genius 10yr Old, Editor in Chief

Tamilda loves to read, and can move things with her mind

Our Writing Staff Includes:

Michael Flatly-Abrasive (MFA): Master of Fine Arts student in creative writing at the University of California, Irvine--arch enemy of Donald Hipsterdoofus
Donald R. Hipsterdoofus: grad school dropout, Silver Lake resident, friend of Richard Scmooze, and arch enemy of Michael Flatly-Abrasive (MFA)
Christianne Alarmist-Librarian: Fundamentalist Christian Alarmist Librarian living in Hanover, New Hampshire. The sky is falling! Hooray!
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poet, Revolutionary, Reformer, Unacknowledged Legislator of the World, and Extremely Good T-Ball Shortstop
Gloria Oldschool: renowned 1950's literary critic, who believes that it is still 1953
Richard Schmooze: Hollywood script finder, friend of Donald Hipsterdoofus--also goes by the name "Dick" Schmooze

What We're Reading

Because we are multiple, we tend to read about a dozen books at once... in fact, all of us tend to read a dozen books at once. Here are the ones we're liking and thinking about...

On Populist Reason

by Ernesto Laclau... one of the best books on political theory I've read in a long long time. It makes sense of both political philosophy (e.g. Rousseau's social contract) as well as of the contemporary American political scene, though he does not reference it directly. Basically: read it.

Amulet

by Roberto Bolaño... sort of a sequel or small-quel to the Savage Detectives

The Enchantress of Florence

by Salman Rushdie

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About the Title

Something Under the Bed Is Writing is, yes, a tribute to Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes, whose second book is called Something Under the Bed Is Drooling. Are we deliberately trying to draw a comparison between writing and drooling? Are writers nothing more than drooling monsters? You tell me. I mean us.