Email Author Carla Blumenkranz

2006 Stories by Carla Blumenkranz

• The Aristocrat

  published July 25, 2006

  The trouble with the aristocracy these days is that they just don't sell as well as celebrities. With only middling beauty and brains, staggering... More >>

• On Native Grounds

  published July 25, 2006

  "There are two kinds of visual memory," Nabokov's Humbert Humbert tells us. "One when you skillfully recreate an image in the laboratory of your... More >>

• The War at Home

  published May 23, 2006

  The Break-Up was supposed to be the movie where Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston got together. Instead, in a bizarro version of... More >>

• Fat Chance

  published May 9, 2006

  Misha Vainberg is a fantastically obese, grossly self-absorbed, and entirely moist-hearted specimen of Russian birth and American education. He... More >>

• Minority Report

  published May 2, 2006

  "I'll be your Boswell, if you'll be my Johnson." So the conversation might have gone between Heti's Ticknor and Ticknor's Prescott—if... More >>

• Book of Daniel

  published April 25, 2006

  Daniel Pinchbeck's new spirtualist manifesto 2012 is understandably hesitant to make itself plain. But if he's correct there's not much... More >>

• Close-Up on Red Hook, Brooklyn

  published April 18, 2006

  Like a prehistoric, three-legged fish crawling out of some slurpy, subterranean swamp, here is Red Hook in its current state of evolution: two... More >>

• Navel Academy

  published April 4, 2006

  There is a peculiar kind of writing produced, almost exclusively, by the females of the species. Its genus, as Philip Lopate describes it, is the... More >>

• Disciples Gather to Worship Prophet of Poetry

  published March 28, 2006

  For the poet who's been a prophet for at least one generation of readers and writers, the New School assembles a meeting house full of disciples.... More >>

• Close-Up on Brooklyn's Navy Yard

  published March 7, 2006

  Here's the difference between the Navy Yard and most other neighborhoods you'll meet: No one wants to have their picture taken. Not the men... More >>

• A Mechanized Culture and its Equally Mechanical Population Meet

  published February 28, 2006

  When the clones come to harvest our organs, they will speak to us like George Saunders—swiftly, smoothly, proffering bits of Pop-Tarts. The... More >>

• For David, with Love and Squalor

  published February 28, 2006

  There are thousands of stories now about men and women who fell out of the sky. The trouble has been the telling. Like the reverse slow-diver at... More >>

• Close-Up on Livingston, Staten Island

  published February 7, 2006

  Ancient mariners, underground railroaders, legendary cricketers—what Livingston, Staten Island, lacks in residents, it more than makes up for... More >>

• Small Change

  published January 17, 2006

  Seth, a 25-year-old freelance handyman and modern dancer, is waging a very small war on the consumer economy from his San Francisco apartment. He... More >>

• 'Perception'

  published January 17, 2006

  Forget what you've heard about being your own worst enemy. In Perception, it's friends and family who really screw a girl over. That girl,... More >>

• Books

  published January 10, 2006

  Imagine I.B. Singer's Elders of Chelm reassembled to issue yet another of their improbable edicts: No story about the Holocaust shall or... More >>

• Code Warriors

  published January 3, 2006

  Over a cup of tea on Carmine Street, NYU junior Inga Chernyak explains how to break current copyright law. All it takes, Chernyak explains, is... More >>

• 'BloodRayne'

  published January 3, 2006

  Riddle me this, Anne Rice: When has a vampire ever been held in captivity, let alone by a circus troupe? It's actually a trick question. Our... More >>