Creating a Character, 2: Bernard Malamud and J.G. Ballard
The question remains: How does a skilled writer establish a good character in so few pages? And how does it relate to their overall style and composition?
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Transport for London and the Total Advertisement
When TfL announced that Canada Water station was to be dubbed ‘Buxton Water’ for Marathon Day we witnessed one of Continue reading
Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Video Games
The great messianic art critic Walter Benjamin saw the role of film in his era of capitalist culture as creating Continue reading
On Certainty and Mad Max
“At the end of the world,” our eponymous hero growls in the prologue of George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road, Continue reading
Simulacrum in Literature: Baudrillard and Barthelme
Simulacrum, like many terms surrounding postmodernism, has been defined in a number of ways. Perhaps the simplest definition of the Continue reading
Time-Tearing with Philip K. Dick
I like Philip K. Dick. His ideas are intriguing and his writing is more than passable by my standards. I Continue reading
Creating a Character: Carver and Cheever
The short story, the ever neglected cousin of the novel, requires many of the same techniques used in the composition Continue reading
Philip K. Dick’s Martian Time-Slip and Pragmatic Knowledge
Philip K. Dick is, without a doubt, one of the most interesting writers of the 20th century. His prose is Continue reading
Blue Labyrinths 