Well, I said I was not going to read a new Le Carre for a while, and then I come across THE NIGHT MANAGER at my local bookstore and how can I pass it up. And it was good. Not TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY, but still good. No matter how much he stuck with the [...]
Having placed THE COMMITTEE for sale on the Kindle, I thought I would join the Kindle Boards and see what the discussion forum is like. I have made one introductory post so far which is here:
http://www.kindleboards.com/index.php/topic,71894.msg1159767.html#msg1159767
And you can find THE COMMITTEE on Amazon here:
THE COMMITTEE for the Kindle
I read THE PERSECUTION AND ASSASSINATION OF JEAN-PAUL MARAT AS PERFORMED BY THE INMATES OF THE ASYLUM OF CHARENTON UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE a little while ago and have been meaning to jot down my thoughts. I have always heard that it is a very powerful play, that audiences react to [...]
I recently read John Le Carre’s OUR KIND OF TRAITOR. As a big fan of his earlier espionage novels (TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY, THE HONORABLE SCHOOLBOY, and SMILEY’S PEOPLE in particular), I was a little disappointed with my first foray into his later work. The saving grace was the ending, which I won’t reveal, but [...]
This past week I read J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting For the Barbarians. This was the first Coetzee I have read and I enjoyed his style. The narrative ran at a slow pace with bit of action interspersed. Having had little introduction to the book, it took me a while to discern what the actual plot [...]
Dionysian imitatio is a fancy phrase meaning remix. Wikipedia defines it as “the influential literary method of imitation as formulated by Greek author Dionysius of Halicarnassus in the first century BCE, which conceived it as the rhetoric practice of emulating, adaptating, reworking and enriching a source text by an earlier author.” The idea is essentially [...]
I was recently pointed to this quote from Ira glass:
Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that [...]
Having just read the PALE KING by David Foster Wallace, I have been thinking about concentration. Concentration is key element in learning, in being respectful, and in being efficient, things that have always been important to me. So I took a look around and found a couple of simple concentration exercises that I thought were [...]
It is with great relief that I have finished the first revision of my latest project, which for now I am calling THE COMMITTEE, though I doubt this is strong enough to be the final title. The story flowed reasonably well, and I made some minor adjustments through out. Once I was done, I consolidated [...]
Came across a great site called DRAFT today that contians pdfs of revised manuscripts. One that has been catching a lot of attention is the first page to David Foster Wallace’s INFINITE JEST. A nice coincidence as I start the revision of my latest project. I’ll be interested to comb through te site a little [...]
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