Category Archives: Fiction
February 8, 2012 Actor! Actor!
Niall Anderson looks at the history of actors writing fiction You can’t imagine Popeye Doyle writing a novel. Buck Barrow barely lived long enough to read one. Royal Tenenbaum wouldn’t write a novel, but he might pass off someone else’s as his own. Harry Caul, on the other hand, looks to have the necessary focus, [...]
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- Posted under Books and Movies, Fiction
January 20, 2012 Birdsong
BY JOSEPHINE GRAHL It’s now almost twenty years since Sebastian Faulks’s novel Birdsong was first published and it comes as something of a surprise to realise that it has never yet been brought to the screen. It seems like a tale that’s ripe for adaptation, with its potent combination of passionate sex, the horror of [...]
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December 22, 2011 The Devil and George Bailey
By Neil Hargreaves Snow falls into the black river beneath him. George knows how cold the water would be – he still has nightmares about going under to rescue his brother. As he remembers, the ear that the cold killed starts to tingle, and at first George thinks it’s because of the memories. But then [...]
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- Posted under Classic Films, Fiction
