Tag: Anthony Bourdain

by MMB June 8, 2018

Anthony Bourdain is dead – No more “food-poetry”

Anthony Bourdain is dead – he killed himself. His body was found in Kaysersberg-Vignoble, France, on Friday, June 8, 2018. HeContinue Reading

by MMB April 13, 2017

Discussion of writing style Review of new book Review of new non-fiction

This guy knows food – Appetites, by Anthony Bourdain

Sometimes you have to admit you don’t know enough to give an opinion. For Appetites – A Cookbook, I askedContinue Reading

by MMB October 1, 2014

Discussion of genre Discussion of writing style List of similar books Review of new book Review of new novel

Stick Out Your Tongue – Getting the hang of the Chinese novel

Reading Chinese novels in English After many years of being tasked to read and review novels (translated into English) by Chinese authors, IContinue Reading

by MMB February 7, 2014

Children’s Literature List of top books Poetry Published books Review of new book

100 Reviews and counting

Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy – coming up – will be the subject of the 100th book review I’ve written inContinue Reading

Questions to Nick Cave of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

How do you know when you have written something worthwhile? What is your process? January 14, 2021

Dear Goran, In Issue #87 I wrote about my favourite line from the New Testament — “Mary Magdalene and the other Mary remained standing there in front of the tomb.” To me, this line seems to sum up, among other things, the process of songwriting. William Blake said ‘Jesus is the imagination’ and these words […] The post How do you know when you have written s […]

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Art of the Title – Review of Film Title Sequences

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957) January 14, 2021

“Of course, the great thing about television is that it lets you see events live as they happen, like old movies from thirty years ago.” — Rock Hunter "I wanted to make a picture where I got a laugh faster than anyone else – I guess that's where it started,” said director Frank Tashlin, explaining the opening sequence to Will Success Spoil Rock Hud […]

Top 10 Title Sequences of 2020 (2020) December 27, 2020

The Best Title Sequences of 2020 It’s been a year like no other. A year when so many of us turned to screens to connect or, indeed, to disconnect; when we ached for a dollop of entertainment, a moment of escape or a dose of comfort, for something familiar or something completely new. This year, for Art of the Title’s seventh annual list of the year’s top 10 […]