Michael Washburn, Author at Book and Film Globe

Nitram

The Tragedy of ‘Nitram’

May 9, 2022May 11, 2022 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Anthony LaPaglia, Caleb Landry Jones, Essie Davis, Judy Davis, Justin Kurzel, Nitram

A riveting, controversial, flawed film about the man behind Australia’s worst mass shooting

Houellebecq

adblock FICTION Politics

Houellebecq and the French Election

April 27, 2022May 12, 2022 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Cécile Prieur, Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen, Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

France’s most vilified living author understands certain parts of the electorate very well

Something To Do With Paying Attention

The David Foster Wallace Tax

April 19, 2022April 23, 2022 Michael Washburn 1 Comment David Foster Wallace, Something To Do With Paying Attention, The Pale King

DFW’s (reissued) final novella considers the IRS

Dostoyevsky

Reading Dostoyevsky Is No Crime

March 7, 2022April 3, 2022 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Paolo Nori, University of Milan-Bicocca, Vladimir Putin

Italian university threatens to cancel Russian literature as response to war, then backs down

Ulysses

‘Ulysses’ Goes to War

March 2, 2022March 6, 2022 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Dubliners, James Joyce, Maureen Dowd, Ulysses, Vicki Mahaffey

A century on, James Joyce’s masterwork still provokes controversy

Downfall

DOCUMENTARY FILM Netflix

‘Downfall’: Not Boeing’s Finest Hour

February 24, 2022March 2, 2022 Michael Washburn 2 Comments Boeing, Downfall, Rory Kennedy

Netflix documentary bares results of putting profits before safety

O'Rourke

R.I P.J. O’Rourke

February 16, 2022February 18, 2022 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Alexander Cockburn, National Lampoon, P.J. O'Rourke

Beloved conservative humorist and author is dead at age 74

Jason Epstein

Jason Epstein, RIP

February 9, 2022April 3, 2022 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Amazon, Anchor BOoks, Jason Epstein, Jeff Bezos, My Salinger Year, New York Review of Books

A farewell to the staunchest ally of books

Margaret Atwood

CREATORS Writers

Margaret Atwood Gets a Stamp of Approval

February 7, 2022February 7, 2022 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Canada, John Buell, Margaret Atwood, Surfacing

But does she speak for all Canadians as she weighs in on national issues?

Drive My Car

‘Drive My Car’ Stays In Its Lane

January 17, 2022April 3, 2022 Michael Washburn 1 Comment Drive My Car, Haruki Murakami, Ryusuke Hamaguchi

The tricky business of turning a Haruki Murakami story into an Oscar-worthy drama

Colorful wall of books on the shelfs at the rotunda in Stockholm Stadsbibliotek (Public Library), April 22, 2017. The building is from 1928 and the architect is Gunnar Asplund. (Photo: Stefan Holm/Shutterstock)

FICTION NON-FICTION

Where Will the Library of America Go in 2022?

January 4, 2022March 17, 2022 Michael Washburn 11 Comments Charles McGrath, Donald Barthelme, James Purdy, Joan Didion, Library of America, Ray Bradbury, The New Yorker

After year of interesting editorial choices, the LOA faces uncharted terrain

AUTHOR STUFF Writers

Death of an Iconoclast

December 24, 2021December 30, 2021 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Doris Lessing, Joan Didion

What Joan Didion did for American letters

Vargas Llosa

CREATORS FICTION Writers

Académie Française Honors Vargas Llosa

December 6, 2021December 10, 2021 Michael Washburn 1 Comment Académie Française, Death In The Andes, Harsh Times, Mario Vargas Llosa

Peruvian writer with a complex worldview receives France’s highest literary award

Gurnah

CREATORS FICTION Writers

The Great Gurnah

November 3, 2021April 3, 2022 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Abdulrazak Gurnah, Chinua Achebe, Haruki Murakami, Paradise, Peter Carey, Peter Handke, Things Fall Apart

An appreciation of this year’s Nobel Prize winner for literature

censorship

FICTION Politics

We’re all living in ‘Fahrenheit 451’

October 27, 2021April 3, 2022 Michael Washburn 2 Comments Censorship, Cornel West, Fahrenheit 451, Library of America, Ray Bradbury, Stephen King

The Library of America Ray Bradbury edition is prophecy, not past

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