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Directed by Tom Ford, from a script by Ford and David Scearce and based on the novel by Christopher Isherwood
It's hard not to notice that A Single Man's timing seems a little awkward. For starters, there's that inevitable confusion with the Coen brothers' A Serious Man, and the [...]
Continue Reading →I was delighted to come across the utterly appropriately titled blog White Readers Meet Black Authors, "your official invitation into the African American section of the bookstore," maintained by novelist Carleen Brice. There is little I can say about this blog that Brice hasn't said already, from the video [...]
Continue Reading →I’ve recently received the four volume set of The Paris Review Interviews. These books, colorful inside and out, are a pleasure to look through and laugh or cringe at the pith and wit of the 20th century’s best writers. Here are some noteworthy excerpts from my morning skim:
Interviewer: Are there any authors you’d like [...]
Continue Reading →So how does one read a short story?
If your thinking of girding for battle by arming yourself with some high-falutin’ literary theory or delving into an author bio lifted from Wikipedia, stop right there. Let me rephrase: How do you read a short story … out loud?
This is a very different question, and [...]
Continue Reading →Best? Top? Favorite? I don’t know what to call them. I had enough trouble narrowing it down to as many movies as years. These annual reflective round-ups always confound me (and you, probably), but the tyranny of ten becomes even more outrageous when dealing with a decade’s [...]
Continue Reading →Once I've finished something I feel detached from it, almost as if it were written by someone else. It's like something actively blocks a particular type of memory from allowing me to feel responsible for it. So when a recent review of my novel Smoke appeared in New Haven Review, it seemed [...]
Continue Reading →I learned recently about an interesting little plot regarding literature (or, at least, literary writing) and getting real mail, which is, as you can tell, kind of a thing with me. (Previously in this forum I've talked about letter writing and how no one does it anymore. Only, and happily, to be proven wrong by [...]
Continue Reading →Yesterday, a beautiful sunny day in New Haven, the NHR crew began its hand-delivery of issue #5. A video crew was on hand to capture the happenings:
Continue Reading →1999, to be exact. On Saturday, the New Haven Review took over Lyric Hall, the antiques and restoration house on Whalley Avenue. Owner John Cavaliere has retrofitted the old vaudeville space in the back, and so what choice did we have but to throw a party to celebrate issue #5?
First, we [...]
Continue Reading →The Dirty Pond's second issue is now up, with work from Christina O'Connor, Greg Maurer, Patricia Dickson, Ryan Cyr, Derek Leka, and yours truly (though don't hold that against them). The Dirty Pond is New Haven's newest literary outlet, dedicated to showcasing the talent that New Haven harbors and creates. Submit to [...]
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