Archive for the 'Writers' Category
Women writers who whine too much
In Salon.com women writers continue to whine over male writers getting more attention in best lists and awards.
Some have been whining about this for years. Here’s a 1998 article, Are men better writers than women? reviewing the Harper’s piece, Scent of a woman’s ink: are women writers really inferior? The editors who write the titles [...]
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Tags: Francine Prose, Harpers, James Chartrand, Kate Harding, Laura Miller, Salon.com, whining
Murakami’s perfect reader
Writers’ body parts don’t usually get media attention. The profile of Haruki Murakami in the Globe & Mail described a man with toned biceps and quadriceps. The interview was on the occasion of a new book, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, a memoir of Murakami’s running and sitting life. Murakami, a [...]
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Tags: Georgia Straight, Haruki Murakami, New York Times, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Gee, I thought Steve Martin’s memoir Born Standing Up would be funny. What it lacks in humour, though, it makes up in tenderness. Subtitled, A comic’s life, the book focuses on Martin’s life and career as a television comedy writer and stand-up comedian. As the book jacket says, by 1978 Martin was the biggest concert [...]
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Tags: Ann-Margaret, Born Standing Up, Carl Reiner, Elvis, Steve Martin, The Jerk
Man who loves film too much
In his role as a television film critic, David Gilmour always struck me as a cranky opinionated guy who thought the world revolved around him. Not surprisingly, I wasn’t drawn to his memoir about a three-year period he hung out with his high-school dropout son watching films that Gilmour chose.
One evening, at one of [...]
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Tags: David Cronenberg, David Gilmour, The Film Club
A biketopian vision
In the June 2008 issue of Walrus, there’s a great article on cycling titled, Geared Up: On the road to two-wheeled transcendence. Reading the first sentence or two, trying to remember the streets of Toronto that were mentioned, I wondered how the writer got away with such a terrible lead. Another sentence or two and [...]
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Tags: Bill Reynolds, Cycling, Momentum magazine, Walrus magazine
