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LWLies Issue 27 is out now!
Little White Lies Blog —
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Inspired by John Hillcoat’s adaptation of the seminal Cormac McCarthy novel, The Road , this may be the way the world ends, but we’re going out with a bang, not a whimper. LWLies 27 is out now, exploring the outer edges of film criticism. Tom Ford makes eyes at A Single Man ; George Clooney jets off Up in ...21 hours ago -
Would you buy Charles Dickens’ toothpick?
Shelf Life —
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Modern celebrities are used to having every little item they touch turn to golden treasures in the eyes of their devotees: Robert Pattinson’s cherry ChapStick, a lock of Elvis’ raven tresses, Meatloaf’s girdle. But acclaimed literary figures have usually been excluded from such fetishistic fandom. At least, ...1 day ago -
Movie Review: The Road (2009)
Cinema Viewfinder —
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The clocks stopped at 1:17 one morning. There was a long shear of bright light, then a series of low concussions. Within a year there were fires on the ridges and deranged chanting. By day the dead impaled on spikes along the road. I think its October, but I cant be sure. I havent kept a calender for five years. Each ...3 days ago -
The Road Wont Receive Wide Release
Inside Movies —
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John Hillcoats The Road, adapted from Cormac McCarthys Pulitzer prize-winning novel and initially pegged as an Oscar-vehicle for Viggo Mortensen, has unexpectedly been pulled back to a much smaller platform release. The Playlist reported that ... Read more Filed under: Movie News Permalink | Email this ...4 days ago -
What Now? A Post-Apocalyptic Reading List
Books Worth Reading —
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Cover of Earth Abides Between the movie 2012 and the actual year 2012 looming on the horizon, global warming summits and Viggo Mortensen heading down The Road , the apocalypse has been on a lot of minds lately. But if you’re one of the (un)lucky ones to survive the actual big event, then what should you do? ...4 days ago -
The Road – Review
Inside Pulse Movies —
Authority: 144
Image Courtesy of IMPawards.com Director: John Hillcoat Notable Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron Creating a movie about a post-apocalyptic world which has been stripped of almost all life in every form can be a daunting task, if for no other reason than that it’s an incredibly ...5 days ago -
What matters? Two very different responses
Blog Meridian —
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Im still reading and grading papers (I have needy students this semester, about which more later), but I wanted to pass along links to a couple of things before I forget to later on.First of all: Its December 12, the feast day of the Virgin of Guadalupe, the patron saint of Mexico. This is a day when I am especially ...6 days ago -
Shadows & Reflections – Ben Myers
Caught by the River —
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In which, as the year comes to its end, our friends and collaborators look back and share their moments; 365 days of rain and mud and fires and writing and walking and squinting at a horizon we’ve spent out whole lives pursuing. And finally we got there. 2009 was the year that I did all those things you talk ...1 week ago -
Newsweek Blames George Bush for Dark, Depressing Movies - Do You Agree?
Cinematical —
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In the cold light of history, Im sure there will be plenty of blame to be laid at the feet of one George W. Bush, but blaming him for movies? Well, thats what Ramin Setoodeh over at Newsweek is proposing -- that the rash of downer films that have littered the box office in the last two years is all because of big ...1 week ago -
Review: THE ROAD
Creation Project —
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When I picked up Cormac McCarthy’s to be Pulitzer Prize winner a few years ago, I didn’t put it down until five days later, when I finished it. This unfinished novel transports the reader into a post-apocalyptic world with no explanation at all. Critics praise the film’s adaptation of these striking apocalyptic ...1 week ago -
It’s The Road For Cormac McCarthy’s Old Typewriter
Seeking In The Zeitgeist —
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The Lettera 32 Olivetti typewriter on which Cormac McCarthy typed all his novels for more than forty-five years (an estimated 5 million words) has sold at auction for $254,500. Mr McCarthy originally purchased the typewriter in 1963 for $50. He didn’t go electronic though, an old friend replaced it with another ...1 week ago -
Edgar Allan Poe Tamerlane and Other Poems First EditionA...
hyde or die —
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Edgar Allan Poe Tamerlane and Other Poems First Edition A volume of poetry and a partial poem handwritten by Edgar Allan Poe also set world records during an earlier auction Friday, Christie’s said. A bidding war over the poem was won by an American collector who bid $830,500, a world record for a ...1 week ago -
Cormac McCarthy’s Typewriter Sold for Ridiculous Amount of Money
Times LIVE Blogs - Posts —
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Cormac McCarthy’s Olivetti typewriter sold at auction in New York on Friday for…wait for it…it was estimated at $20 000…but sold to an unidentified collector for…$254, 500!!!!!!!! - That’s more than 10 times the estimate that Christie’s placed on it before the sale.Related posts: Cormac McCarthy’s ...1 week ago -
George Washington Letter, Poe Poem and McCarthy Typewriter Sell at Auction
Exotic Excess —
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A letter by George Washington has sold for $3,218,500 at auction in New York City, setting a world record for a letter by America’s first president, according to Christie’s. Washington’s 1787 letter to nephew Bushrod Washington argues for the ratification of the newly drafted Constitution. The letter had ...1 week ago -
Book News and Views: Writers on Writing Edition
Books Worth Reading —
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Image via Wikipedia Here are a bunch of writerly links I’ve rounded up from the Interwebs: Cormac McCarthy shares his wisdom in this interview with the Wall Street Journal . My favorite quote: “Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.” ...1 week ago -
The writings on the wall...
bringing up charlie —
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US crime-writer Cormac McCarthy sold his typewriter on Friday. The one he used to tap out all his novels. The one he bought for $50 fifty years ago in Tennessee. If youre a typewriter-geek like I am youll want to know that it was a light blue Lettera 32 Olivetti with the slightly battered case. And no doubt one very, ...1 week ago -
For Conservative Movie Lovers: Hal Needham, Burt Reynolds and ‘Smokey and the Bandit’ Part 1
Big Hollywood —
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These days, big-city philistines posing as cultural elites call it “flyover country.” From the comfort of a private jet, it looks like a vast ocean of emptiness. And yet, every election day, media newsrooms find themselves grudgingly painting that part of the map red — blood red. To them, the American ...1 week ago -
Writing Neuroses ... mine are rare, yours may be legion —
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‘Platform’ and how to think about it We’re told that all writers need a platform. This is not the creaky stage on which the Women’s Institute sings Jerusalem, but the underpinning material of a marketing strategy. The very word makes most writers cringe like slugs threatened with salt because it sounds so ...1 week ago -
Taking The Long Road To See “The Road”
A Round World Through Square Glasses —
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After waiting for over a year and watching the movie trades for a release date, the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s”The Road” finally hit the big screens a week or so ago. Except it didn’t. Well…it DID…but no theater in my immediate area was carrying it. So I had to hunt it down. So on a trip to ...2 weeks ago -
Cormac McCarthys Typewriter Brings $254,500 at Auction
NYT > Theater —
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The Lettera 32 Olivetti manual machine that the author used to type all his novels sold Friday at Christies to an unidentified buyer.2 weeks ago
