Michael Washburn, Author at Book and Film Globe

Friday, July 3, 2020

Memories of the Lovecraft Wars

July 2, 2020July 2, 2020 Michael Washburn 0 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

DOCUMENTARY FICTION FILM

How Close Are We To Dystopia? Despite What Michael Moore Says, Not Very.

October 15, 2018October 15, 2018 Michael Washburn 1 Comment 1984, Christopher Hitchens, Donald Trump, dystopia, fascism, George Orwell, Hitler, Michael Moore, Odon von Horvath, The Age Of The Fish

A Novel By an Avant-Garde Genius Of The 1930s Offers Clarity

FICTION NON-FICTION

Mailer’s Fatal Flaw

September 19, 2018September 21, 2018 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Jack Henry Abbott, murder, Norman Mailer

By Championing a Violent Criminal, Norman Mailer Tarnished His Legacy

Writers

Margaret Drabble’s Incoherent, Superficial, Overwrought Style of Argumentation

September 3, 2018September 17, 2018 Michael Washburn 1 Comment Margaret Drabble, Telegraph, W.H. Auden

‘My anti-Americanism has become almost uncontrollable. It has possessed me, like a disease’

COMICS CREATORS FICTION Writers

Robert E. Howard: Literary Artist or Pulp Hack?

August 20, 2018August 20, 2018 Michael Washburn 4 Comments Bran Mak Morn, Conan the Barbarian, H.P. Lovecraft, Kull, Robert E. Howard, Solomon Kane

There’s more to the creator of Conan the Barbarian than can be contained by sword-and-sorcery

FICTION Writers

Vladimir Nabokov and the Struggles Within

August 15, 2018August 14, 2018 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Despair, Edmund Wilson, Lolita, Paul Miliukov, Pnin, The Defense, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Vladimir Nabokov

Father’s violent end informed the master’s depictions of warring internal factions