July 2007

  • Ciaccona
    • by Bud Parr on 07/28/07 (0 comments)

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Simon Augustine has written a fairly exhuastive guide to Writers and Poets on Film at GreenCine Daily:

“Portraying the writing process in the movies with excitement and insight is difficult to pull off, given that writing is such an interior, personal process, mostly done in isolation.”

Good video piece with Eugene Drucker of the Emerson String Quartet on Bach’s "Ciaccona" (scroll down) as it threads his story of a violinist made to perform in a Nazi concentration camp in his novel The Savior.

“You may have to slow your body speed down a bit to catch Henry Thoreau’s wavelength, but once you do there is no denying the pure delight found in these words. No other writer — not even my beloved Henry James — crafts sentences sharper than those you’ll find in Walden.”

- Levi Asher

“I’ve long been much more excited by the subtly entwined elements of artistic prose and depictions of the human consciousness at work that typify so-called literary fiction than I am by hard-driving plots. Like many critics who champion popular fiction, Hornby seems to have a chip on his shoulder about it. I always wonder: if plot-driven work is so great, why all the insecurity about it?”
– James Tata



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