I'm doing a certain amount of siphoning off - stuff on photography has been appearing at ’Stairs Steps Stares (which in time will likely becomes Stares, and needs some updates) and stuff on film is now going to be at Conjunctions. An offshoot of a Sekrit Projekt and a Sekrit Projekt will be revealed in due course, subject to contract and all that ( Read more... )

Alibi's top earning crime writers

Is Michael Crichton really a crime writer? First Great Train Robbery, I suppose. Bit of a stretch for Ian Fleming, come to that.

White supremacists urge Thor boycott over casting of black actor as Norse god.

The reason to boycott the film is it's Kenneth Bloody Branagh, who made such a spalsh with Mary Shelley's Young Frankenstein.

Is there really a novelist called Docx? I look forward to Pdf and Rtf.

Can someone who accuses genre writers of being amateurish get away with the sentence "we are lead to believe"?

The Grauniad Open Door on use of pronouns for the transgendered in reportage: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/nov/08/pronouns-transgendered-peopleRead more... )

... by The Sensational Alex Salmond Gastric Band.

Bohemian Anchovy
Bjork and Blessed
I am Nick
Stand and Deliver

Marilyn Hacker is The Grauniad's Poet of the Week

And Nicholas Lezard usually talks sense (see section in brackets at end):

But whether or not there is some trauma that Chabon prefers to skate around, or underplay (his parents' divorce when he was 12, perhaps?), there is no gainsaying his pleasing niceness, a kind of all-consuming tolerance which manifests itself in a wide-eyed appreciation of ( Read more... )

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/oct/15/red-riding-film-ridley-scott

Ridley Scott to remake Red Riding Trilogy/Quartet.

And to set it in the US.

Just what we need.

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