The Hobbit Is a Picaresque Novel
“I Have a Very Vivid Child’s View” — A 1967 Interview with J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien, In His Own Words (1968 BBC Documentary)
J.R.R. Tolkien Links
Tag: BBC
The Orson Welles Story (BBC Documentary)
Benjamin Black’s Vengeance (Book Acquired, 3.06.2013)
Vengeance, the latest in Benjamin Black’s Quirke series. From Janet Maslin’s New York Times review last year:
Vengeance” once again leads Quirke into his favorite kind of trouble: “yet another morass of human cupidity and deceit,” involving the deaths of powerful men and the foxy insolence of their glamorous widows. It breaks no new ground.
But why should Benjamin Black tamper with a winning formula? The crimes aren’t graphic or even terribly central. And the detecting questions don’t count for much. The books are far more notable for malaise, atmospherics, sexual chemistry and vast amounts of swirling tobacco smoke and mind-muddling alcohol, without which justice could apparently never prevail.
Vengeance is new in trade paperback from Picador.
J.R.R. Tolkien Links
1985 Robert Fripp Documentary
Watch A Day in the Afterlife, a Documentary on Philip K. Dick (BBC, 1994)
Anthony Burgess (and Others) on Charles Dickens
Brian Eno: Another Green World (BBC Documentary)
BBC Documentary on Goya’s Third of May 1808
Has Man a Future? — Bertrand Russell Penguin Edition (Book Acquired, 9.14.2012)
Unable to resist this1961 first edition Penguin of Russell’s essay for peace, Has Man a Future?
In a strange coincidence, I showed this 1959 clip of Russell to a few of my classes this week—I know others have shared it before, but it seems more relevant than ever:
In Camera — A 1964 BBC Adaptation of Sartre’s No Exit, Starring Harold Pinter
Vanishing Is the Last Art (Book Acquired, Some Time in the Past Two Weeks)
Josh Davis’s novel Vanishing Is the Last Art. Blurb:
Charlie Fell sells baseball cards with seemingly hallucinogenic properties out of his bedroom, takes road trips to places he loves (New York City) and loathes (Southern California), and trips over a series of romantic entanglements. When the young writer releases his first novel, his life begins to unravel as the fallout from his published inner-monologues drive him back inside his already frail mind
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