Tag Archives: corruption

13. Singularity

Colin Rezo, return­ing from a busi­ness trip in India on a plane, may or may not have an exis­ten­tial freak-out after con­sid­er­ing his sex-tourist antics, then may or may not be mocked by Ger­mans. First appeared in the Fall 2011 issue of Trans­fer Mag­a­zine (#102).

12.09.2011 – 8:07:PM | By Matt Carney | Posted in Like Real Life | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

The Holy Baba

The brandy we’d shared thirty min­utes prior with the Ital­ians and Lithuan­ian in the dark was sud­denly com­ing up strong. I sort of felt like I might taste bile soon. That, and also the fact that two holy men were approach­ing, seemed to indi­cate that Instant Karma! truly was going to get me. Until the holy …

03.15.2011 – 1:45:AM | By Matt Carney | Posted in India II | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

One’s Place in Contempoary Writing, One’s Writing Process, and One’s Insane Rant

Hard real­ism. Or maybe just dense but not impen­e­tra­ble real­ism. Regard­less of the title, it seems the new real­ism is in vogue at the moment with con­tem­po­rary writers—at the moment, mind you. Today’s lit jour­nal mas­ter­piece will be tomor­rows depression-era emer­gency toi­let paper. Or at least can be. Don’t get me wrong, though. I’m not say­ing …

08.03.2010 – 7:41:PM | By Matt Carney | Posted in Blog | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

11. Visiting the Foreign Registry Office (8.29.2010)

A first-hand look into the ulti­mate in police bureau­cracy tech­nol­ogy. Police cor­rup­tion, tight asses, and the inter­rup­tion of impor­tant busi­ness to dis­cuss cricket.

12.10.2008 – 10:12:AM | By Matt Carney | Posted in India | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)