Trevor Seigler, Author at Book and Film Globe

Friday, September 18, 2020

How James Baldwin Can Help Us ‘Begin Again’

August 20, 2020August 19, 2020 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments Begin Again, Eddie Glaude, James Baldwin, Jr., The Fire Next Time

Urgent lessons from a not-distant past

NON-FICTION Politics

Presidenting Is Hard

August 18, 2020August 24, 2020 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments 60 Minutes, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, John Dickerson, The Hardest Job in the World, The West Wing

‘The Hardest Job In the World: The American Presidency,’ by John Dickerson

Memoir NON-FICTION

The Vanishing Country of Bakari Sellers

June 11, 2020 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments Bakari Sellers, Barack Obama, Harriet Wilson, Malcolm X, Ta-Nehisi Coates

An urgent memoir, a call to action

NON-FICTION Sports

Field of Broken Dreams

March 26, 2020 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments baseball, Houston Astros, Jackie Robinson, Jim Bouton, Jim Brosnan, Jose Canseco, R.A. Dickey

Six baseball books that don’t steal signs

CREATORS Remembrance Writers

Charles Portis Has Passed Away

February 20, 2020 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments Charles Portis, Gringos, True Grit

An author with True Grit

FICTION

Celebrating Black History Month Through Literature

February 7, 2020February 18, 2020 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments A Mercy, Black History Month, Black No More, Colson Whitehead, Esi Edyugan, George Schuyler, Half-Blood Blues, Homegoing, John Henry Days, Paul Beatty, The Sellout, Toni Morrison, Yaa Gyasi

Read these six novels and call us in March.

CREATORS FILM Remembrance TELEVISION

Terry Jones (1942-2020), RIP

January 22, 2020January 22, 2020 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments Eric Idle, John Cleese, John Oliver, Justin Trudeau, Michael Palin, Monty Python, Monty Python and The Holy Grail, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Monty Python's Meaning of Life, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones

His Colleagues Honor the Comedian, Scholar, and Naked Organ Player

Biography NON-FICTION

The People’s Princess

December 5, 2019December 17, 2019 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments A Life On The Edge, Carrie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, Eddie Fisher, Harrison Ford, mental health issues, Sarah Crichton Books, Sheila Weller

‘Carrie Fisher: A Life On The Edge’

FICTION

The Spy Who Went Back Into the Cold

November 18, 2019 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments Agent Running In The Field, James Bond, John LeCarré, Len Deighton, The Ipcress File

A New John LeCarré Protagonist for a New World Order

FICTION

Zadie Smith, Master of the Short Story

October 23, 2019October 24, 2019 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments Grand Union, Master of the Short Story, Michael Chabon effect, NW, Swing Time, White Teeth, Zadie Smith

Her New Collection, Grand Union, Shows off Her Range

NON-FICTION Politics

‘The Immoral Majority’

September 26, 2019 Trevor Seigler 2 Comments Ben Howe, Donald Trump, Evangelical Christianity, Immoral Majority, Never Trump

A Conservative Blogger Examines the Toxic Christianity that Helped Land Trump in the White House

NON-FICTION

Fool’s Gold

August 14, 2019 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Emily Nussbaum, I Like To Watch, Joan Rivers, The New Yorker

Emily Nussbaum’s Essay Collection Calls “The Golden Age Of Television” Into Doubt

CLASSICS FILM

The French New Wave at 60

June 17, 2019 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments 400 Blows, Agnes Varda, Alfred Hitchcock, Cahiers du Cinema, Cleo From 5 to 7, Francois Truffaut, French New Wave, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Bresson

Not so New Anymore, but Still Really Influential

NON-FICTION Sports

‘The Cost Of These Dreams’

May 30, 2019 Trevor Seigler 1 Comment Dan Gable, Michael Jordan, Pat Riley, The Cost Of These Dreams, Tiger Woods, Wright Thompson

A Collection About Athletes, Loss, and Absent Parents

Biography NON-FICTION

‘Becoming Dr. Seuss’

May 23, 2019May 23, 2019 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments Becoming Dr. Seuss, Brian Jay Jones, Dr. Seuss, Theodor Geisel

A New Biography of the Shakespeare of Kiddie Lit

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