On Revision
From Carolyn See’s Making a Literary Life: “Revision is when you first get to recognize the distance between what you wanted to write, what you thought you were writing, and what you actually did write. That recognition often makes you want to throw up.”
continue readingIs Nicholson Baker Getting a Cut?
I’ve noticed a couple of films recently that involve someone being able to mess with the passage of time. Adam Sandler’s new movie, Click, is the story of Michael Newman, a busy architect who discovers a universal remote that allows him to alter real time the way you fast-forward, pause, or rewind a videotape. In the trailer,…
continue readingAltman Honored, Hannah Footnote
During last night’s Academy Awards telecast, director Robert Altman was given an honorary Oscar for his lifetime achievement in film. Although Altman only thanked his doctor during his acceptance speech, I was thinking about Barry Hannah. Most of you probably know Hannah in relation to his fabulous short story collections such as Bats Out of Hell and Airships.…
continue readingPorizkova’s Difficult Decisions
The always useful Publishers Marketplace reported that former supermodel Paulina Porizkova signed a deal with Hyperion for a novel entitled A Model Summer in which a fifteen-year-old Czech-born Swedish girl is chosen by a modeling agent to spend a summer strutting for the camera in Paris. During that time in the City of Light, the model is…
continue readingDeceitful Film Premeires
Syntax of Things collects the trailers for the film version of The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things. And Gawker relates their observations of the film’s premiere this week. Most of their report focuses on events surrounding the actual debut of the film since they found the movie “terrible, so much so that we walked out…
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