Music and Lyrics won’t be getting anywhere near the Oscars, but it’s totally worth seeing just to see this video on the big screen. In it, Hugh Grant plays an eighties heart-throb, one of two front-men for the wildly popular band POP, singing their hit single Pop Goes My Heart. The parody of early eighties pop videos is spot-on, from the George Michael-inspired white pants to the Spandau Ballet-inspired lyrics. There’s the obligatory hospital scene, a montage set against a sunset, and lots of dancing and happy prancing. I loved it at the theater, and I find myself oddly...
Monthly Archives: February 2007
After the MFA: the 10-year round-up
I just heard from my old friend Paul Perry from my U. of Miami days. Paul has a new baby, BláithÃn, and in November he had a new collection of poetry, The Orchid Keeper, out with Dedalus Press. You can hear Paul reading some of the poems from the collection here. Another U. of Miami pal, Les Kay, edits the excellent newish journal Ward 6 Review. And I’ve been wondering for years about Aina Abiodun. The delectable Aina left U of M. to pursue a film career. A quick search just now of IMDB revealed that she’s currently working...
Ray Bradbury at Home
I just came across this odd and wonderful little collection of video clips, taken at Ray Bradbury’s home in LA in 2001, by the folks who publish raybradbury.com. In it you’ll see the chaotic basement where the exceedingly prolific Bradbury works, and hear him joking about holding the record for rejections from The New Yorker. I didn’t realize until visiting the site that Bradbury had a new book out in 2006, Farewell Summer, a follow-up to Dandelion Wine, first published in 1957. You’ll also see Bradbury talking about linked story collections, something he did way back in the 1940s...
audio for THE YEAR OF FOG
I just heard from Carrington MacDuffie, an award-winning narrator who will be narrating the audio version of THE YEAR OF FOG. MacDuffie has narrated books by Irish Murdoch, Candace Bushnell, Christopher Buckley, Ursula LeGuin, and others. THE YEAR OF FOG is available for pre-order here on CD, MP3, or cassette (hello, does any actually own a cassette player anymore?) Over the course of writing THE YEAR OF FOG, I came to hear the narrator’s voice in my head, and to know her tone and inflections very intimately. It will be an interesting experience for me to hear my protagonist...
fogtime
THE YEAR OF FOG received a starred review in today’s Library Journal. A mesmerizing novel of loss and grief, hope and redemption, and the endurance of love… Highly recommended.~Karen Fauls-Traynor, Sullivan Free Library, Chittenango, NY Hoorah for the librarians! Here’s my favorite librarian’s blog, Free Range Librarian. You can find a particular item in any library by searching the fabulous WorldCat. Some of my favorite libraries here. Read the first chapter of THE YEAR OF FOG here. Also starred in this issue of Library Journal is Jane Smiley’s Ten Days in the Hills, a “sly and sexy comic novel”...
The international bestseller about one woman’s search for a missing child…
"Mesmerizing." ~Library Journal, starred review.
Stop dreaming, start writing!
