http://jeremyhatch.com Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:47:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "The movies are now old enough -- we've had a century of movies -- that you can actually look at a long period of time during which there has been interaction between the forms [of film and the novel]. And it has been both ways, and we tend to think ... http://jeremyhatch.com/nextframe/rushdie-on-film-and-the-novel/ "Nerval is remembered as a minor literary figure, an eccentric who walked his pet lobster on a ribbon in the Palais Royal, gabbled his poetry in doorways, read at night with a candlestick on his head, and slept in coaches with his head in a noose, habits that endeared him ... http://jeremyhatch.com/cityword/thoughts-on-the-salt-smugglers-at-tqc/ "Someone said there are only two ways to live your life: one is as if nothing is a miracle, the other is as if everything is. I've always been convinced Havana is an annexed colony of the latter... "I was sitting in the rafters next to a father and son for ... http://jeremyhatch.com/cityword/live-as-if-everything-were-a-miracle/ William Deresiewicz just published a long essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education that's worth spending some time with: "Faux Friendship," in which he traces how the concept of friendship has changed since classical times -- it used to be an intense and serious matter; these days, not so much ... http://jeremyhatch.com/openfolio/friends-vs-friends-twitter-vs-the-long-missive/ New York Magazine's Sam Anderson -- who is, in my opinion, a top contender for a spot on IHateYouAndIWantYourLife.com -- has written a fascinating piece outlining his view of the way ambitious novels have changed in the past ten years. Those doorstops from the late 90s -- Infinite Jest being Anderson's ... http://jeremyhatch.com/cityword/the-road-from-infinite-jest-to-oscar-wao/ Today, issue number 18 of the Quarterly Conversation was published, including my review of Rudolph Wurlitzer's cult classic, Nog. Excerpt: Although Nog has never been entirely forgotten since its first publication in 1968, it has never fully emerged from cult-classic status; as Erik Davis observes in the introduction to the recent ... http://jeremyhatch.com/cityword/review-of-nog-on-the-quarterly-conversation/ The David Lynch Foundation wrote us the other day to mention a delightful film they're screening on the DLF.TV website until December 9th: Path Lights. It's a 22-minute short, based on a 2005 story by Tom Drury, about a voice actor who almost gets hit by a flying bottle one day ... http://jeremyhatch.com/nextframe/path-lights-by-zachary-sluser/ "His prose may often rest on a banality (“we like to feel superior to others. But our problem is that we’re not superior") but his inner turmoil over such bland ideas, expressed with a post-adolescent intensity, is disarming." Ron Slate reviews the new book from actor, playwright and filmmaker Wallace Shawn, ... http://jeremyhatch.com/cityword/a-disarming-post-adolescent-intensity/ My interview with Brett Gaylor about filesharing and remix culture, the fourth installment of the Conversations About The Internet series, is up at the Rumpus. Excerpt: Brett Gaylor is a filmmaker who argues that [the reaction to filesharing and the threat to remix culture] are directly related, and he has made ... http://jeremyhatch.com/openfolio/conversations-about-the-internet-4-brett-gaylor/ Total Film has published an installment of their regular feature "Movie by Movie," about each one of Terry Gilliam's films: "The Trials, the Tribulations, The Triumphs." From Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Jabberwocky on to Time Bandits -- about which there is an amazing story: Gilliam was having a ... http://jeremyhatch.com/nextframe/terry-gilliam-movie-by-movie/