The Pinter Grab Bag
Written byPosted on October 14, 2005
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PINTER — GENERAL:
- Harold Pinter: the official site.
- Harold Pinter timeline.
- Contemporary Writers: lengthy critical perspective on Pinter.
- The Harold Pinter Society: publisher of The Pinter Review.
- BBC Four: Harold Pinter page (includes Pinter quiz).
- Internet Broadway Database: Pinter credits.
- Internet Movie Database: Pinter credits.
- The Harold Pinter Collection: University of Texas at Austin.
PINTER — EXCERPTS:
- “Girls”: “‘Girls like to be spanked.’ But do they?” (Granta)
- Pinter on Samuel Beckett: “His work is beautiful.”
- Excerpt from The Dumb Waiter.
- Excerpt from Old Times.
PINTER PERSPECTIVES:
- Review of “Betrayal.”
- Review of “The Caretaker.”
- Curtain Up: an overview of Pinter’s career.
- Ian Mackean: “Winners and losers in the plays of Harold Pinter.”
PINTER — INTERVIEWS:
- The Paris Review: Fall 1966.
- The Independent: Pinter on creating a radio play for his 75th birthday and fighting cancer.
- The New Statesman: November 8, 1999.
- The Guardian: August 3, 2001 (mostly political).
- BBC: Harold Pinter vs. Arnold Wesker.
PINTER — POLITICS:
- “The War Against Reason” — Pinter arguing against the war in Iraq (Red Pepper, December 2002).
- “Carribean Cold War”< ?a> — a Pinter pro-Cuba piece (Red Pepper, May 1996).
- “The American administration is a bloodthirsty wild animal.” (The Daily Telegraph, November 12, 2002).
- Pinter on NATO (BBC, June 1, 1999).
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Books To Jump Up and Down Over
Girl Power by Marisa Meltzer. During the 1990s, artists such as Liz Phair and Bikini Kill came very close to unsettling the patriarchal pop hierarchy. And this small yet thoughtful volume delineates many connections between girl bands and post-Beauty Myth ruminations, suggesting that we may have come closer to a musical revolution than we realized, but settled for less.
Reality Hunger by David Shields. This book, challenging both "originality" and the conventional narratives we accept in literary "masterpieces," is mandatory reading for every working writer. It's almost designed as a litmus test carefully designed to uproot charlatans. (Indeed, Zadie Smith confessed last November in The Guardian that she could not write a novel after reading this book. Interestingly, her essay is no longer available online.) The book presents numerous thoughts and maxims: some contrived, some taken from other sources (see the numerous endnotes), and some sincere. And even if you don't agree with the sentiments, you'll come away from the book rethinking your perceptions of the novel and possibly galvanized to reapproach your own work. 
Psycho Too by Will Self. This handsome followup to Psychogeography containing the last half of Will Self's New Statesman columns and accompanied by Ralph Steadman's gloriously savage illustrations -- seems to have escaped the attention of most American newspapers, save for a widely syndicated Alexandra Fuller review in The New York Times Book Review. Small wonder that in a universe happily handing over its glass-encased brains to the likes of People and TMZ that Fuller would accuse Self of penning a "densely written" book and focus her interests more on Self's "rakish behavior" from fifteen years ago rather than his post-Debordian meditations on the dérive. That's too bad. Because Self's enjoyable and hyperliterate essays, laden with cranky asides and thoughtful considerations about the fixed manner in which humans unwittingly accept their spatial limitations, deserves your consideration.
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