writing tools – SEVEN CIRCUMSTANCES

by M. Bijman March 7, 2019 0

The Charm/Curse of Cliffhangers – The Hod King, by Josiah Bancroft

The Hod King, Bancroft’s third book in his Books of Babel tetralogy, is an exercise in exquisite torture through cliffhangers.Continue Reading

New York Review of Books

‘I Can’t Just Stand on the Sidelines’: An Interview with Naomi Oreskes October 18, 2019

Claudia Dreifus: I heard that you grew up in a political family. True? Naomi Oreskes: I did. And for a long time, I didn’t want to be political. My parents were very involved in the civil rights movement. I always tell people, “When I grew up, the mall was a place you went to protest, not to shop.” As a child, I was proud of my parents, but there was somethi […]

Claudia Dreifus

Art of the Title – Review of Film Title Sequences

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 […]