The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
A COWBOY dressed in low-brimmed hat and poncho, with a six-gun slung at his side, stood outside Elmwood Hall yesterday where this year's Belfast Festival at Queen's was launched.
Filmstalker (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
The Road, the adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel by the writer Joe Penhall, has completed filming and the first script review has made its way across the Interflab as quick as you can type. Although it isn't an extensive review, there are some interesting comments that make it sound that this could well be a powerful film. Indeed the reviewer suggests that this is going to be a completely faithful...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
CORMAC MCCARTHY'S PULITZER Prize-winning novel, The Road, takes place in a world that, because of some unexplained catastrophe, has just about ended. The sky is grey, the
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
THE WAVE SINGER BY GREG MICHAELSON Argyll Publishing, 253pp, £8.99
Notes from Underdog. (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
I'm beginning a countdown of tips and tricks for budding screenwriters on the way to my script workshop (Sept 6 at Fort Mason in San Francisco; discount if you register before August 21!) Tip #25: Subtitle Sublimation. Learn about dialog...
RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
Plus proof I can respect Pacino but not look forward to all his movies
RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
Plus news on a coming adaptation of 'Cities of the Plain'
The Written Word (Free subscription) | 17/08/2008
Have you ever seen the blog My Friend Amy? I hadn’t stumbled upon it until today and found that she will be hosting the Book Bloggers Appreciation Week (BBAW) in September. It looks like a fun way to celebrate the book blogging community. As she points out, book bloggers are inherently a wonderful, caring and fun group, so [...]
Reel Suave (Free subscription) | 17/08/2008
An Interview with John Hillcoat and his colleagues who are adapting the Pulitzer winning work The Road written by Cormac McCarthy. The screenwriter Joe Penhall found it hard to make sure that the film was more hopeful than what it was written in the book. The film stars Viggo Mortenson and Charlize Theron. An Excerpt from the script: COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE NATIONAL SCENIC AREA, ORE. — THE FATHER and...
BlueNC - Comments (Free subscription) | 17/08/2008
...to live in a world in which Cormac McCarthy is still producing new work. I just finished "The Crossing" (from 1994) last week. The usual superlatives apply. As far as Murakami goes, you've started at the top. I've read all of his stuff and "Wind-up Bird" is his best. Stop while you're ahead! (Though "A Wild Sheep Chase" is really fun too.) I have to plug Richard Ford's "Frank Bascomb" books as...
Says Simpleton (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
After a lengthy editorial process, the article I wrote entitled "Dreams as a Structural Framework in Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses ," has been published in The Explicator 66.3 (Spring 2008), 166-170. All the Pretty Horses is the first installment of the Border Trilogy, a set of three novels that follow the lives of two young American cowboys on the TX/MX border in the early Twentieth Century....
Blog@Newsarama (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
Over on his blog, comics creator Bob Fingerman announces a new project he’s doing that IDW will publish next May: It’s official: IDW Publishing will be releasing my satirical post-apocalyptic saga From the Ashes next spring. It will be a six-issue series and stars Michele (my wife) and I in the radioactive wastelands of New York [...]
Get The Picture (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
Random goodies to check out this AM: The Quad turns its eye to #17 Tennessee. It’s a surprisingly bland look. The most interesting thing there is the alumni list, with Cormac McCarthy and Kurt Vonnegut making an appearance. And you didn’t think Vols could read, did you… As far as I can tell, the Times Free Press [...]
India Uncut (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
Soumya Bhattacharya wonders why Indians don’t buy more books. He does some math for us: It costs Rs 200 to watch a movie on a weekend evening at a multiplex. (And that’s without the popcorn and the soft drinks.) Now my edition of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road — for my money the finest novel of 2007 and a New York Times bestseller, which means that a lot of people, including those who make their reading...
Film Junk (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Lots of juicy gossip for the tabloid rags this week, including Morgan Freeman’s car accident (followed by his supposed divorce), Christina Applegate’s breast cancer diagnosis, and now Bernie Mac’s unexpected death. Looking beyond all that, however, one of the big stories of the week that we didn’t get a chance to report on was a [...]
