Charles Bernheimer is a writer and activist who lives in Chicago, Illinois with his wife and children. He has written for The Sun-Times, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and other publications. His work has been featured in the Chicago Reader and The Nation. He was a staff reporter for the Chicago Daily News from 1991 to 1996, where he covered crime and other topics
Prior to that he worked as a journalist for three years at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
For Zola, as for Huysmans, nature itself is uncanny because it is the domain of the feminine, a domain that is constitutionally defective, lacking, even pathological.Charles Bernheimer
Huysmans takes the old trope of moon-as-woman and replaces its romantic connotations with decadent ones: the moon here is woman as clamorous lunatic, as convulsive epileptic.Charles Bernheimer
