Katharine Coldiron, Author at Book and Film Globe

NBCC

CREATORS FICTION NON-FICTION Politics Writers

Critical Mess: The NBCC Implosion

June 23, 2020June 26, 2020 Katharine Coldiron 0 Comments Carlin Romano, Hope Wabuke, Ismail Muhammad, NBCC

The National Book Critics’ Circle’s old-guard members refuse to roll with the times

Book

FICTION Memoir NON-FICTION

A Reading List of Books By Black Authors

June 3, 2020June 12, 2020 Katharine Coldiron 0 Comments Alice Randall, Bethany C. Morrow, Cadwell Turnbull, Ebony Flowers, Hanif Abdurraqib, Hot Comb, How To Exterminate The Black Woman, Jabari Asim, MEM, Monica Prince, Nella Larsen, Passing, Riot Baby, Sarah M. Broom, The Crown Ain’t Worth Much, The Lesson, The Wind Done Gone, The Yellow House, Tochi Onyebuchi, We Can’t Breathe

I can read. It’s better than doing nothing.

AWP

CREATORS Writers

AWP in the Time of Plague

March 12, 2020March 16, 2020 Katharine Coldiron 0 Comments AWP, AWP 2020, Barrelhouse Books, McSweeneys, Tin House, W.W. Norton

A dispatch from a half-empty conference that was already in trouble

Actors CREATORS DOCUMENTARY FILM

The Full Monty

December 5, 2019December 5, 2019 Katharine Coldiron 0 Comments Making Montgomery Clift, Montgomery Clift

‘Making Montgomery Clift’–A Documentary About a Movie Star NOT Tortured By His Sexuality

Anne Boyer Didn’t Die

October 8, 2019October 8, 2019 Katharine Coldiron 0 Comments Anne Boyer, The Undying

‘The Undying,’ a Crucial Work of Literature About Illness in the 21st Century

Front Window

September 30, 2019October 3, 2019 Katharine Coldiron 0 Comments changing face of the Bay Area, Five Windows, hygge, Jon Roemer

‘Five Windows,’ a Just-So-Well-Written First Novel From San Francisco’s Jon Roemer

Very Funny Kind of Sad Asian

September 18, 2019September 25, 2019 Katharine Coldiron 0 Comments Leland Cheuk, No Good Very Bad Asian

In ‘No Good Very Bad Asian,’ a Star Comedian Can’t Escape His Family

Shoot First, Ask Questions Later

September 12, 2019September 12, 2019 Katharine Coldiron 0 Comments Bloomland, Collette Fellous, John Englehardt, This Tilting World

Two Books, Two Very Different Approaches to Writing About Mass Shootings

Memoir NON-FICTION

Rick Moody’s Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Year

August 1, 2019 Katharine Coldiron 0 Comments Rick Moody, The Long Accomplishment

‘The Long Accomplishment’: An Eye-Popping, Cathartic Read

This Novel is in Trouble

July 11, 2019July 10, 2019 Katharine Coldiron 0 Comments Fleishman Is In Trouble, Taffy Brodesser-Akner

‘Fleishman’: Shallow, Spineless, and Overrated

CREATORS FICTION NON-FICTION Writers

Not Everybody Must Get Stoner

June 10, 2019June 9, 2019 Katharine Coldiron 7 Comments Ig Publishing, John Williams, Steve Almond, Stoner, William Stoner and the Battle for the Inner Life

Steve Almond Attempts to Extend the Reputation of Literature’s Most Overrated Academic Novel

‘Juliet The Maniac’

May 15, 2019May 15, 2019 Katharine Coldiron 0 Comments Juliet Escoria, Juliet The Maniac, Melville House

OK, Maybe Autofiction Isn’t All Bad

CREATORS FICTION Writers

There Will Never be One Great Millennial Novel

April 16, 2019April 19, 2019 Katharine Coldiron 2 Comments Bret Easton Ellis, David Foster Wallace, Donna Tartt, Gen-X, Jonathan Safran Foer, Karen Russell, Mark Athitakis, Matt Zoller Seitz, Millennials, Ottessa Moshfegh

Why do GenXers Want to Freeze Culture in Its Tracks?

CREATORS Writers

What I Did at AWP

April 2, 2019April 1, 2019 Katharine Coldiron 0 Comments American Literary Translator's Association, Association of Writers & Writing Programs, AWP, Barrelhouse Books, Chris Kraus, Christian Lorentzen, Elizabeth Kostova Foundation, Europa Editions, Jane Ciabattari, Joanna Valente, Lacy Johnson, Melissa Febos, Michael Seidlinger, Open Letter Books, Oscar Villalon, Sophia Shalmiyev

Two and a Half Panels are More Than Enough

Riot Grrl

March 8, 2019 Katharine Coldiron 0 Comments Brie Larson, Captain Marvel, Frozen, Kree, Nick Fury, Samuel L. Jackson, Skrull, Veers, Wonder Woman

It’s the 90s, and ‘Captain Marvel’ Has Got Nothing to Prove

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