Email Author Alec Hanley Bemis

2002 Stories by Alec Hanley Bemis

• A Thousand Teens Bloom

  published December 5, 2002

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• Speed Freaks

  published November 14, 2002

  Dave Eggers’ first fiction, You Shall Know Our Velocity (Y.S.K.O.V.), is aptly titled. There is an excitement to the novel -- a speed -- tha... More >>

• Baseball at the End of the World

  published October 10, 2002

  All of a sudden young-adult fiction is the thing to do. A disparate lineup of authors, from literary-fiction factory Joyce Carol Oates and... More >>

• Blood Rush

  published September 26, 2002

  No one has placed Coldplay at the forefront of 2002‘s ”rock renaissance“ yet, so let’s be the first. Yeah, sure, they sound more like a... More >>

• Boys Are for Noise

  published August 15, 2002

  There is horrible noise, and then there is horrible noise you can legitimately say you enjoy. To understand the distinction, see Lightning Bolt... More >>

• Maybe

  published June 20, 2002

  HEY, BUDDY, FIND ME A CRITIC WHO CARES! I've been considering the role of criticism in the era of the... More >>

• Paul Williams, Subjective Artist

  published June 20, 2002

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• Dreaming, Grieving, Making Music

  published May 30, 2002

  Images of the wreckage. New Age music‘s peaceful thrum. Pathos builds. Cue voice-over: ”In the wake of 911 . . .“ You throw your Percocet ... More >>

• Up a Creek

  published April 25, 2002

  We want things to fit, like square pegs in square holes. But there are no square holes. There are stones in shoes, bumps in roads, clouds in... More >>

• Golden Handcuffs

  published April 4, 2002

  I pick up the Sunday paper from my doorstep. A circular for Office Max falls out. On the front is a picture of a black man holding a cell phone... More >>

• Fanboys and Cheesecake

  published April 4, 2002

  TITS AND ASS. THAT IS THE DOMINANT IMPRESSION one takes away from the Electronic Entertainment Expo, the world's largest showcase for... More >>

• Cool Schmool

  published March 21, 2002

  N*E*R*D In Search of . . . (Virgin Records) I've had friends who feel the urge to drive SUVs within the confines of... More >>

• Queasy Sick Wonderful

  published February 21, 2002

  Photographs by Max S. GerberOne day at Amoeba: Record buyers photographed January 3, 2002. Interviews by Vanessa Silverton-Peel... More >>

• Attack of the Widget People

  published January 24, 2002

  “Musicians need to start thinking of themselves as makers of a product just like widgets,” said Kevin Murray, a Democratic sta... More >>