Speedboat (1976) We were talking about No, No, Nanette. I said I thought there was such a thing an an Angry Bravo – that those audiences who stand, and cheer, and roar, and seem altogether besides themselves at what they would instantly agree is at best an unimportant thing, are not really cheering No, No, […]
After several years mostly away from the theatre, Tomorrow Come Today, a play I wrote last summer is being produced next month at the Undermain Theatre in Dallas. I’m especially happy about this for two different reasons – the first being that Undermain is an awesome theatre with a 30 year (!) track record of […]
About a year ago I contributed an interview to Adam Szymkowicz’s website, which contains an amazing catalogue of interviews with working playwrights – literally hundreds of them. He’s a very interesting writer himself, and going through his questions was a lot of fun. Going through his collection of interviews is a major rabbit hole for […]
The last of the small pieces I’ve been contributing to Hilobrow.com is online, an appreciation of Out, by Natsuo Kirino. Only three of Kirino’s many novels have been translated English, but Out – her breakthrough book in Japan – is one of the best noir novels I’ve read in years and I just can’t recommend […]
Part two of my recent interview with Clare Diston, a Bristol-based writer whose writings on reading can be found at 50ayear.com, is now online. The first part of the interview – taken from a long skype call between Bristol and Palm Springs, where I happened to be working – is up here.
Another small piece is online now at Hilobrow.com, an appreciation of the American mystery author Ross Macdonald. To my mind he’s the man who carries the American hard-boiled mystery into a recognizable present from its origins with Hammett and Chandler. I really can’t recommend Macdonald’s books enough – tough and tender, intricately wrought, and mindful […]
On the heels of the Glass Books trilogy being offered in a digital format in the UK, I did a number of interviews and Q&As with various UK-based websites. One of the more lengthy interviews was with Clare Diston, a Bristol-based writer whose writings on reading can be found at 50ayear.com. The first part of […]
Another small piece is online now at Hilobrow.com, about La Maison de Rendez-vous, the 1966 novel by Alain Robbe-Grillet. This was the first novel in some years from Robbe-Grillet, who’d taken a break from his first three nouveau roman novels to write the screenplay for Alain Resnais’ L’Année dernière à Marienbad, and then to write […]
Another small piece is online now at Hilobrow.com, about the English actor Philip Stone. While Stone isn’t the only performer to appear in three of Stanley Kubrick’s films (an honor he shares with Joe Turkel), there’s something about Stone’s subtle range that meshes perfectly with the mind behind those films. All three films – The […]
Through the summer I’m going to have some small pieces at the excellent Hilobrow.com, mainly on a few favorite books and writers. The first, about Roger Zelazny’s Lord of Light, is online now. Zelazny was someone I discovered as a teenager, having picked up a copy of Nine Princes in Amber at a thrift store […]
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