Margaret Atwood is a good interview, and there’s plenty of interviews available. She’s done a whole series on religion on YouTube, and I previewed several vids where she discussed the MaddAddam Trilogy. The Year of the Flood is out in paperback already, and I’ll be looking for some enlightening material to post on the development [...]
William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer features a character, Molly Millions, that he developed for the story Johnny Mnemonic. It was made into a movie starring Keannu Reeves. Blast from the past, baby. Ice-T? and hey, he can hold 80 gigabytes of data in his head! What did we think a gigabyte would be in 2021?
I found this hipster-lit vid on YouTube. I will probably soften up on Augusten Burroughs as I read more of his work. At the moment, though, I’m asking myself, “If you got famous for making art out of your most miserable experiences, would you ever stop thinking about them, and just enjoy your life?”
Jonathan Safran Foer, the novelist best known for Everything is Illuminated has written a new book about meat. Here in the trailer he discusses his inspiration, and we meet some of the key characters. I linked to this via an article in Slate which was a discussion about whether or not a book ought to [...]
Justly nominated for the National Book Award, Let the Great World Spin is the best read I’ve had in while. At the end, I had to go back to the beginning to remember where it started. The story spins through narrators, each so well imagined and authentically placed, the whole book feels more truth than [...]
David Liss is the author of several books, including The Devil’s Company, a mystery that explores the origins of the modern corporation in the 1700s in London. Despite it’s abysmal tally of views on YouTube, I found this interview from May 22, 2009 interesting. Liss has an education in finance, and it informs his work [...]
I just finished reading Let the Great World Spin and I came across this link on Colum McCann’s website. Note he’s also a Goodreads author, so you can follow him there. The book was nominated for the National Book Award. I haven’t read all the others but it’s an interesting field this year with several [...]