The Age has the Mark Haddon profile to end all Mark Haddon profiles. He confesses that he’s a fortysomething who listens to the Flaming Lips and Sparklehorse, is 30,000 words into his next novel Blood and Scissors, and (regrettably) has been reading the McSweeney’s crowd.
Laura Bush has called gay marriage “a very, very shocking issue.” She also reports that she faints at the sight of blood.
The American Prospect has some fun with a comparative review of stalker/sucker/spineless wanker memoirs.
Caryn James examines the recent rise of Hollywood fiction.
And if, like me, you were an RPG geek back in the 80s, you might be interested to know that Paranoia has returned.
Salon: “And instead of playing the peace-loving Christian, Gibson is swatting at critics, real and imagined. Of New York Times writer Frank Rich, Gibson admits to having said, ‘I wanted to kill him. I want his intestines on a stick. I want to kill his dog.'”
And that’s not all, kids:
Sawyer: You said, “The Holy Ghost was working through me.”
Gibson: I’ve received a lot of ridicule for that statement. I think that the Holy Ghost is real. I believe that he’s looking favorably on this film and he wanted to help.
Proclaiming himself “somewhere between Howard Stern and Saint Francis of Assisi on the scale of morality,” Gibson also seems creepily preoccupied with evil, both apparently in the focus of his film and in his current situation.
Sawyer: You said at one point, “The big dark force didn’t want us to make this film.”
Gibson: Sure.
Sawyer: What was the force?
Gibson: What was the force? It’s the thing you can’t see. I’m a believer, by the way. So if you believe, you believe that there are big realms of good and evil, and they’re slugging it out.
(via A.O.)
