Why is Daniel Soar so concerned with Martin Amis’s anger? Why doesn’t he recognize that writers sometimes write angry because they give more than a few damns about the universe?
Month / December 2006
Gnarly
My Rudy Rucker overview can be found in today’s Los Angeles Times.
Merry Xmas
Maybe It’s Because Europeans Know Better Than to Pay Money for Agitprop
Variety: “After a soft start, ‘The Nativity Story’ is showing respectable legs at the domestic box office in the days leading up to Christmas, but it’s been shunned by moviegoers outside the States….’My guess is that “Nativity” may have felt too familiar, kind of like a movie of the week,’ one distrib noted.”
Big Bubble in Little China
A certain C. Max Magee can be found in the latest Poets and Writers, examining the efforts of publishers to attract Chinese literary talent.