Frank Conroy’s Stop-Time is being filmed. That memoir made me feel like I had much too wonderful of a childhood to become a real writer. Hope the movie makes it through all the Hollywood hoops. (via Earthgoat) Catch the discussion on Triangle by Katherine Weber over at the Litblog Co-op, and if you haven’t started […]
Greetings everyone. I’ve back from a very long and rather physically exhausting trip to South America, though I have the stories and Mrs. BookFox has the pictures to prove we had a good time (I will link to Flickr once we upload). Many thanks to my wonderful guest posters who held down the fort and […]
No one belongs here more than me. That’s what I kept telling myself while staring at the bright and shiny cover. Really, it was shiny. I could just about see my nose in the binding. An appeal to the reader—look I want you to read this book so much that I will show you how […]
Stephanie Harrison’s Adaptations Collection.This is an interesting book I saw awhile back. A collection of thirty-five short stories that have been adapted into classic movies. From “All About Eve” to “Minority Report.” I’ve always heard the idea professed that – in terms of adaptation – the worse the novel, the better the movie. The idea […]
To often I have been finding in my recent reading we focus on ‘invoking the muse’ rather than actually ‘being creative’. Everyday there is another book published about how to become or get creative. Rather than the fluffy titles that the books now have, they should read "How to be Creative in Just Three Easy […]
Mucho gracias to my witty and wonderful guest posters. I will just briefly interrupt their reign of wisdom to weigh in with another Dispatch From Abroad, this time with my promised post about Roberto Bolano. I have been reading Bolano in Chile, simply because he´s Chilean and I wanted my reading to match my travels. […]
Hello. This is Greg Rock. Third and last to arrive in the string of guest bloggers for the John Fox. I am a fiction writer and screenwriter based in Los Angeles. The last book I bought was The Collected Stories: by Leonard Michaels. Discovering Leonard Michaels, after he was first recommended by a writing professor, […]
Hi. I’m the second blogger that BookFox has asked to fill-in while he is traveling this summer. And I’m a poet. At my site, Radical Nonsense, a reader will not find much of my own poetry, but however they will find my thoughts on just about anything literary, tea or any intellectual pursuit. While I […]
Greetings from Chile, where I recently visited the house of the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. I figured since I was here I might as well visit whatever literary attractions there are in Chile, and Neruda is the main draw. (I´ve been reading Roberto Bolano as well, but I´ll post on that later.) I was introduced […]
Okay, last post before I get out of the country, seriously. Over at Emerging Writers Network, Dan has a roundtable with numerous bloggers, and I am one of the interviewees. Always interesting to hear what your fellow bloggers say about their site, and also nice to see such attention being paid to the emerging blogger […]
