Michael Washburn, Author at Book and Film Globe

Saturday, September 19, 2020

I Went to a Book Fair During the Pandemic…In Lisbon

September 14, 2020September 14, 2020 Michael Washburn 0 Comments António Lobo Antunes, Book Expo, Feira do Livro, Frankfurt Book Fair, João Tordo, Jose Saramago, Lisbon, Livros do Brasil

Portugal’s annual literary event, Feira do Livro, carries on as others fold

COMICS FILM

Is There Going to be an ‘Alpha Flight’ Movie?

September 9, 2020 Michael Washburn 3 Comments Alpha Flight, Aurora, Guardian, John Byrne, Northstar, Sasquatch, Smart Alec, Vindicator, Wolverine

80s kids want to know

FICTION NON-FICTION Politics

Powell’s Books Takes a Stand

September 2, 2020September 4, 2020 Michael Washburn 0 Comments ABA, Amazon, Bevis, Chatwin Books, Powell's, Skylight Books, The Strand

Portland indie giant will no longer sell on Amazon

TELEVISION

‘Lovecraft Country’: Not Very Lovecraftian

August 16, 2020August 26, 2020 Michael Washburn 25 Comments Courtney B. Vance, J.J. Abrams, Jonathan Majors, Jordan Peele, Jurnee Smollett, Lovecraft Country, Michael Kenneth Williams, Misha Green, S.T. Joshi

HBO’s exciting and scary new series seems to miss the point of Lovecraft’s work

CREATORS Remembrance Writers

Pete Hamill, RIP

August 7, 2020August 11, 2020 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Diego Rivera, Jackie Onassis, Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, New York Post, Pete Hamill, Shirley MacLaine, The Insider, Weldon Kees

Memories and mysteries of one of the greatest American journalists

FICTION NON-FICTION

Stranger Than Fiction

July 31, 2020August 10, 2020 Michael Washburn 1 Comment Bookselling, COVID-19

Months into the pandemic, indie booksellers grapple with the challenges of reopening

AUTHOR STUFF FICTION Writers

‘Papa’ Was A Rolling Stone

July 21, 2020July 22, 2020 Michael Washburn 0 Comments A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway, Hemingway Hoax, Joe Haldeman, Lillian Ross, Portrait of Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises

A birthday appreciation of Ernest Hemingway, whose work has relevance in today’s pandemic

CREATORS Writers

Memories of the Lovecraft Wars

July 2, 2020August 8, 2020 Michael Washburn 17 Comments Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft, Lovecraft, S.T. Joshi, World Fantasy Awards

The cancellation of the Lovecraft World Fantasy Award statuette prefigured today’s culture battles

CREATORS Remembrance Writers

Remembering Alexander Cockburn

June 5, 2020June 5, 2020 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Alexander Cockburn, Christopher Hitchens, Edward Said

Controversial lefty journalist battled the right wing and mainstream liberals

CREATORS Writers

Are Writers Really Better Off At Home?

May 11, 2020May 11, 2020 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Harlan Ellison, Henry Miller, Paragraph Brooklyn, Stephen King

Here’s hoping writers’ spaces reopen as soon as possible

NON-FICTION

Battle of the Sexes

October 21, 2019October 21, 2019 Michael Washburn 0 Comments James Hasson, Stand Down

‘Stand Down’ Calls Into Question the Efficacy of a Gender-Integrated Military Fighting Force

NON-FICTION

Foucault’s Blender

August 1, 2019August 1, 2019 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Michel Foucault, Simeon Wade

An Account of Chillin’ in the California Desert With the Great Philosopher

FILM

Maybe Commodus Was the Good Guy

May 30, 2019 Michael Washburn 1 Comment Commodus, Gladiator, Joaquin Phoenix, Maximus, Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe

A Look Back at Gladiator Through a 2020 Lens

FICTION Politics

The People Are Revolting

April 12, 2019April 12, 2019 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Balzac, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Orwell, Reign Of Terror

Beware the Modern Jacobins: a Warning From Balzac

CREATORS FICTION Writers

The Repressed Was Never Gone

March 20, 2019March 20, 2019 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Edgar Allen Poe, Freud, John Hawkes, The Frog

Reading ‘The Frog,’ by John Hawkes

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