links of interest
Laurie R. King is a Peter Temple fan:
"As a writer, scenes like that are maddening, just infuriating, with how damned right they are. As a reader, well, that’s another matter entirely."
Back in 2002, January Magazine interviewed Temple (winner of the CWA Duncan Lawrie Dagger this year):
"This is the hallmark of Temple's writing: the sparse style, the diamond-pure clarity that comes from years of distilling words. He pumps more muscle in one paragraph than lesser writers muster in a page, a craft learned in the hothouse of journalism and developed through the influences of favorite crime writers such as Elmore Leonard (Tishomingo Blues)."
boz4pm transcribes a satire from The Now Show about the aborted bombing attempts in London and Glasgow:
"Well, we all had a lucky escape this week as Britain was saved from two terrorist attacks by the fact... that it's Britain."
Michael Atkinson on Charles Ferguson's new documentary, No End In Sight, which was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance (via GreenCine Daily):
"[G]o to yesterday’s or tomorrow’s New York Times or Washington Post or NPR or CNN, and all you’ll hear is debate about what to do next, what’s the best strategy, what’s the best timetable. These are discussions that must happen, but they’re also absolutely ubiquitous because no one wishes to or is willing to say what should be said first: that the men responsible have to hang. I mean literally, like Joachim von Ribbentrop at Nuremberg."
"As a writer, scenes like that are maddening, just infuriating, with how damned right they are. As a reader, well, that’s another matter entirely."
Back in 2002, January Magazine interviewed Temple (winner of the CWA Duncan Lawrie Dagger this year):
"This is the hallmark of Temple's writing: the sparse style, the diamond-pure clarity that comes from years of distilling words. He pumps more muscle in one paragraph than lesser writers muster in a page, a craft learned in the hothouse of journalism and developed through the influences of favorite crime writers such as Elmore Leonard (Tishomingo Blues)."
boz4pm transcribes a satire from The Now Show about the aborted bombing attempts in London and Glasgow:
"Well, we all had a lucky escape this week as Britain was saved from two terrorist attacks by the fact... that it's Britain."
Michael Atkinson on Charles Ferguson's new documentary, No End In Sight, which was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance (via GreenCine Daily):
"[G]o to yesterday’s or tomorrow’s New York Times or Washington Post or NPR or CNN, and all you’ll hear is debate about what to do next, what’s the best strategy, what’s the best timetable. These are discussions that must happen, but they’re also absolutely ubiquitous because no one wishes to or is willing to say what should be said first: that the men responsible have to hang. I mean literally, like Joachim von Ribbentrop at Nuremberg."