Tag: fiction

by M. Bijman December 13, 2017 0

Debut fiction from Tom Hanks – “Uncommon Type” – is a labour of love

Tom Hanks’s debut work of fiction, a collection of short stories, came out on October 17, 2017. It has beenContinue Reading

by M. Bijman June 8, 2017 0

The reboot of the TV series Twin Peaks, Twin Peaks: The Return premiered on the 21st of May, to a hugeContinue Reading

by M. Bijman July 31, 2015 0

The lead character in Hausfrau, “Anna Benz”, must be one of the most disagreeable people I have had the misfortuneContinue Reading

by M. Bijman May 28, 2015 0

Recently, while PBS was airing the documentary The Dust Bowl by Ken Burns, I bought Mary Coin by Marisa Silver. IContinue Reading

by M. Bijman May 7, 2014 0

Grand old man of Canadian literature dies Just last week I gave my copy of Farley Mowat’s Eastern Passage to a friendContinue Reading

by M. Bijman December 1, 2013

Update The Goldfinch won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Amazon selected the novel as the 2013 Best Book ofContinue Reading

Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (2019) October 5, 2019
“Ultimately I knew that words have power.” — Toni Morrison The visionary and essential novelist Toni Morrison was born on February 18th, 1931 and died on August 5, 2019. In between, she was a voice of great power and resounding truth, a celebrated writer and editor, a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and a Nobel Prize winner, a mother of two an […]
The Exorcist (1973) August 31, 2019
“I'm the Devil. Now kindly undo these straps.” — Demon The Exorcist was not your average blockbuster film. Called “the greatest horror film of all time” by many, it has remained unparalleled in terms of its initial reception, its cultural impact and its subsequent adoption into the American film canon. With a worldwide gross of over $440 million, countl […]