Arte dello squallore, arte parassita, della mortificazione. Superficie della desolazione, superficie ottusa. Un’arte repulsiva che non rappr...

sweetness & light

Mithridates Agonistes .

disparition

He tried to show what it was like to read a book and what the thinking mind looked like in the act of writing. He wrote compellingly about e...

Bloggrrrrrrrrr

Back in the dawn of time a young writer started a blog under the pseudonym Mithridates. I actually know who he is (we had already exchanged ...

abeetz

The blogger formerly known as Mithridates, formerly resident in Brooklyn, toughs it out in the culinary desert that is Chicago and describes...

Native Son

I don't know anyone who has read Gilbert Sorrentino. This is not exactly true. A college professor introduced me to Sorrentino's wor...

here we go gathering nuts and may

I'm getting to the point where I'd rather castrate myself than talk to H. We work together at the tutoring center... Mithridates b...

mith antagonizes

I thought: I need to start buying cool art magazines so I look more attractive to people on trains. I thought: But 7 pounds? That's roug...

Someone is WRONG

Mithridates on Fredric Jameson on pornography, The Godfather, Jaws, how much time have you got? (And this is just Part I)

SGTD

I got an e-mail a few days ago from Mithridates . He said if Tender Only to One was what he thought it was it should go public because it mi...

All the best writers write at 3.21 am

Unaccustomed to public speaking, Mithridates rashly offers to speak at an academic conference, Having no idea that conference papers general...

Phallicity of the Ruling Classes

These are the penises I saw today. Small, nestled in turtleneck of skin atop testicles like a mother bird guarding speckled eggs. Uncircumci...