Email Author Howard Hampton

2003 Stories by Howard Hampton

• Magical Mediocrity Tour

  published December 30, 2003

  Stubborn, adaptable, and ferocious, mediocrity thrives in politics and art, monster–truck rallies and academic conferences, maintaining any... More >>

• Holiday for Strings

  published October 14, 2003

  Recipe for non-generic, deliciously unsweetened, naturally surreal jazz: Add wiry violin, cakewalking bass, and bubbling drums to a... More >>

• Traci Elements

  published July 29, 2003

  Erstwhile porn wunderkind Traci Lords's fuzzy new memoir brings to mind a remark from her fellow Cry-Baby thespian Patty Hearst: "I... More >>

• Wishful Seeing

  published April 15, 2003

  "Some people will do anything to keep themselves from being moved," Susan Sontag writes in Regarding the Pain of Others, and who would know... More >>

• Out at Home

  published March 25, 2003

  Some band names fit like a fielder's glove: Joy Division (left-handed), the Replacements, the Mendoza Line. The latter is baseball slang for the... More >>

• All About the Benjamins

  published March 4, 2003

  Two aspects of Walter Benjamin face each other across a narrow, bottomless chasm: the all too human pursuer of meaning—redemption—and... More >>