After reading Philip K Dick’s Lies Inc
Reading Philip K Dick’s ‘Lies Inc’ I am conscious yet again what an unusual writer he was. A thwarted social novelist of the 50s who poured out a constant stream … Continue reading
The transmigration of Philip K Dick
In his first decade of writing, 1951-1961, Philip K Dick wrote nine novels recounting the existential problems of characters struggling to survive in small town America. Other novels are known, … Continue reading
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
Angel Archer is in distress. The three people she has loved the most in the world are all dead: her husband Jeff, her father-in-law Timothy, her best friend Kirsten. At … Continue reading
How I write
I’ve been watching how I write recently. I’m quite dissatisfied sometimes with the result, not because of my use of language but at the way I express my ideas. This … Continue reading
Jean Harlow: from star to actress
Jean Harlow is now a symbol, for some, of golden age Hollywood glamour; for others she has the uncanny fascination that those who die young exert on us. At the … Continue reading
Man of 100 masterpieces: Georges Simenon
There are two Georges Simenons. In Europe and Latin America he is a major author, mentioned in the context of Dostoevsky, Durrenmatt and Patricia Highsmith. In English language countries he … Continue reading
The mother and the whore
I am watching ‘La maman et la putain’, I think for the third or fourth time. I don’t want to say it’s a ‘great’ film, because the only sure meaning … Continue reading
