Tag: literature
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Inspired by Murder
This review was written by Colin Dickey for New Republic, November 2, 2016: “Murder, in ordinary cases, where the sympathy is wholly directed to the case of the murdered person,” (De Quincey) reasons, “is an incident of coarse and vulgar horror; and for this reason that it flings the interest exclusively upon the natural…
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Psycho-geographic Impressionism
Psychogeography was defined in 1955 by Guy Debord as “the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals.” – from Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geograhy, 1955 From Burrow Press, an interview with Tim Gilmore by Hurley Winkler: Before…
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A Writing Binge at the Malting House
Another home run from Wormwoodiana! Here are some quotes: In ‘The Malting House Summer’ (The New Review, Vol. 3, No. 31, October 1976), Diana Davenport recalled the place: “The Malting House still retains an air of legend: a tall, Provencal-looking building, flat against the main street, its putty-coloured wash peeling, lower windows shuttered, door ever-open.”…
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Dead Men Naked, Book Review
Dead Men Naked, a novel by Dario Cannizzaro Review by Bill Ectric Dead Men Naked is the best novel I’ve read in while, satisfying to the end. All too often, books with supernatural overtones veer into preposterous territory, but not this one. Author Dario Cannizzaro achieves a near-perfect balance of realism and phantasm, humor and…
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Will Self Writes in the Morning
Again, someone who recommends writing in the morning. I’ve only written in the morning twice. Both times were to record lucid dreams before I forgot them. I keep saying I’m going to try it for my fiction writing. Maybe tomorrow. From The Guardian: When I’m working on a novel I type the initial draft first thing…
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From Gothic Thriller to Art Film
Another fun website that reviews and analyzes genre films is Braineater, created and maintained by Will Laughlin. In this installment he reviews the French film La Chambre ardente (1962), “a movie that sits somewhere between an art film and a Gothic thriller,” directed by Julien Duvivier, based on a classic novel by the American author…