Writers in movies: Their Own Desire
Another in a series. Their Own Desire is a 1929 movie starring Norma Shearer. Here’s the Wikipedia synopsis: A young woman is upset by the knowledge that her father is divorcing her mother in order to...
View ArticleWriters in movies: Stuck in Love
Another in a random series. Stuck in Love is a pleasant indie movie from 2012 starring Greg Kinnear and Jennifer Connelly. Here’s the IMDB summary: An acclaimed writer, his ex-wife, and their teenaged...
View ArticleWriters in movies: Young Cassidy
In honor of Saint Patrick’s Day, here’s an Irish writer in this occasional series. This time it’s Young Cassidy, the 1965 biopic of Irish playwright Sean O’Casey starring Rod Taylor, Maggie Smith, and...
View ArticleWriting as an act of faith
My friend Jeff Carver has a nice post up about writing as an act of faith, and how that faith was unexpectedly rewarded for him the other night. As he says, writing is an act of faith almost by...
View ArticleWriters in movies: The Romantic Englishwoman
Another in a random series. The Romantic Englishwoman is a 1975 movie with A-list credentials: it stars Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson, it’s co-written by Tom Stoppard, and it’s directed by Joseph...
View ArticleIn which I run into Edgar Allen Poe
I was walking from the Boston Common over to Jacob Wirth’s after my road race when I ran into this guy with his pet raven at twilight: Poe was born in Boston in Boston in 1809, although he went to...
View ArticleA Spool of Blue Thread
Anne Tyler is a writer who faded from my attention over the years, but you know . . . she’s very good, even though, like most novelists, she seems to write the same book over and over again. Here is...
View ArticleWriters in movies: A Walk in the Woods
Another in a random series. A Walk in the Woods, a film based on Bill Bryson’s travel book about hiking the Appalachian Trail, seems to be a small-scale hit. At the showing we went to, the median age...
View ArticleRichard Adams
Amidst all the dispiriting deaths in 2016, that of Richard Adams didn’t get a whole lot of attention. But his Watership Down was a masterpiece, I think. In it, he created a world so vivid, so...
View ArticleWriters in movies: "Little Women"
I haven’t done one of these in a while. I assume you’ve all seen Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, so I don’t have to include spoiler alerts. The difficulty with portraying writers in movies is that...
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