19 January 2014
Rethinking Endearments….
By Trevor McNaughton // Books
I was looking over the screenplay of Brokeback Mountain the other day, which was adapted by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana from E. Annie Proulx’s shattering short story, and I …
12 December 2013
Isherwood and His Kind
By Trevor McNaughton // Books
First of all, for those of you not in the know, Christopher and His Kind was a book written in 1976 by Christopher Isherwood. Isherwood wrote a number of books, …
18 October 2013
Rupert Everett’s Vanished Years
By Trevor McNaughton // Books
One really has to hand it to Rupert Everett. Once touted as the next great British leading man, he came out of the closet and summarily watched a once very …
12 October 2013
A Despised Balancing Act: Turgenev’s Fathers & Sons
By Trevor McNaughton // Books
Young Man to Middle Aged Man: “You had content but no force.” Middle Aged Man to Young Man: “You had force but no content.” – the original epigraph to Fathers …
28 September 2013
Our Favourites: Rebeta-Burditt’s The Cracker Factory
By Trevor McNaughton // Books
This autobiographical novel by Joyce Rebeta-Burditt was a national bestseller when it was first published back in 1976. Immediately referred to as a female One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, …
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