At first glance, legendary film editor Walter Murch seems like an unlikely choice for a literary muse. Murch is a groundbreaking figure in film, to be sure–and, as an author, he’s written the acclaimed In the Blink of an Eye, about the craft he’s helped shape. Waves Passing in the Night: Walter Murch in the Land of the Astrophysicists is actually the second nonfiction work by an already-admired author that’s taken Murch as its subject. The first is Michael Ondaatje’s […]
Afternoon Bites: Michael Ondaatje, Martha Southgate, John Fahey, and more
At Electric Literature, James Kaelan on Occupy Wall Street and the return of his Zero-Emission Book Project. (Vol.1’s Tobias Carroll reviewed Kaelan’s We’re Getting On for Word Riot last year.) Jess Row on Michael Ondaatje’s latest novel, The Cat’s Table: “an affirmation of a literary ethic Ondaatje has devoted his career to rejecting.” At Largehearted Boy, Martha Southgate has assembled Book Notes for her novel The Taste of Salt. Ta-Nehisi Coates addresses the “genre fiction vs. literary fiction” debate. Grayson Currin on […]