Tag: literature
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THE ATTIC BY THE SEA
Exercise from a creative writing course I recently completed: Imagine a beach. On the beach is a door that leads to an attic. You go into the attic. Write about what you find there. THE ATTIC BY THE SEA The attic was bare. The floorboards rough and uneven. As I walked across…
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THE CONFRONTATION
The sun shone through the leaves of the oak tree, swaying in the gentle breeze. Their shadows played over Caleb as he sat with his back against the broad trunk, looking along the dusty track. From his carefully chosen vantage point across from the church he could see all…
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THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE MULTIPLEX: WHAT’S WRONG WITH MODERN MOVIES?
by Mark Kermode Mark Kermode and I have a number of disagreements about films. Not that he is aware of them of course, having never met me or read anything I have written or said about films (despite the fact he has worked on BBC TWO’s The Culture Show, as I have in the edit,…
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CARTE BLANCHE
The new James Bond novel, by Jeffrey Deaver. The last novel authorised by the Fleming Estate was in 2007 , when Sebastian Faulks chose to write as Ian Fleming and deliver a classic cold war Bond tale in Devil May Care. It was set in the 1960’s, contemporary with Fleming’s original novels and tried to imitate both…
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RENOIR, MY FATHER
RENOIR, MY FATHER Jean Renoir A biography of the Impressionist painter Pierre Auguste Renoir, by his son, the French film director, Jean. In principle, this is a simple book. A fond, often sentimental, look back at the life one of the great artists of the late 19th, and early 20th, centuries, as remembered by his middle…
Iain Kelly 