Posts Tagged ‘A.M. Homes’
October 16, 2012 | by Sadie Stein
Adorable, literal interpretations of author names by illustrator Mattias Adolfsson.
“I know I said that if I lived to 100 I’d not regret what happened last night. But I woke up this morning and a century had passed. Sorry.” Geoff Dyer, Jackie Collins, A. M. Homes, and others attempt the 140-character novel.
Speaking of brevity, Ian McEwan declares that the novella is the superior written form because “you can hold the whole thing structurally in your mind at once.”
Qin Dynasty book burnings.
Patti Smith: “I remember the very first time I saw Kristen Stewart and Rob Pattinson together, when they were younger, and I thought, Those two kids could have easily played us [in Just Kids] when they were first starting. There’s something in his eyes. And Robert [Mapplethorpe] was also a bit shy, and a bit stoic. Kristen has a very special quality. She’s not conventionally beautiful, but very charismatic.”
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TAGS A.M. Homes, books, Geoff Dyer, Ian McEwan, Jackie Collins, Mattias Adolfsson, news, Patti Smith, Qin Dynasty, Robert Mapplethorpe, roundup
October 12, 2011 | by Nick Antosca
Photograph by Aftab Uzzaman.
If you are a writer with any presence on the Internet, even a very obscure one, you often get e-mails from strangers. Sometimes these strangers are quite eccentric, like the guy who once sent me a short story about men who were enslaved for breeding purposes and fed dog food. So I didn’t give much thought to a cryptic e-mail I got in the summer of 2009 from a person named Innocente Fontana.
The e-mail contained a few terse words of praise for my first novel. I wrote back, “Innocente Fontana can’t possibly be your real name … can it?” He didn’t respond; three months passed. During that time, I was living off of unemployment benefits and savings from a job I’d recently lost, and I was feeling exhausted. To make a living as a writer, as I was trying to do, seemed impossible.
In the fall, presumably because he’d read a blog post I wrote about traveling in Morocco, Fontana e-mailed again. This e-mail was longer and mentioned that, decades back, he’d spent time in Tangier. He said he’d known Paul Bowles during that time, that Bowles had become his literary mentor. Skeptical, I probed for more detail. Who was he, really? Read More »
TAGS A.M. Homes, Brand New Cherry Flavor, Bret Easton Ellis, Clive Barker, David Lynch, e-mail, film noir, Gary Fisketjon, I. Fontana, Innocente Fontana, James Ellroy, Jean Harlow, Katherine Dunn, Los Angeles, mescaline, Multiple Sclerosis, Nastassja Kinski, Oregon, Paul Bowles, Portland, Spork, Stainless, Tangier, Todd Grimson, Vintage, What the Matter Is, Within Normal LImits
