A Plague of Words
Here’s a rant I’ve been meaning to have for quite some time. Getting it off my chest will probably do me some good, but I can’t speak for anyone else. Okay. I have too much to read. In fact, I have so...
View ArticleFour great podcasts
By Alan Glynn It’s commonplace these days for people to declare, proudly, almost defiantly, that their attention span isn’t what it used to be, that it has been shot to bits, atomized, and chiefly by...
View ArticleTwo more great podcasts
By Alan Glynn As Nicholas Carr points out in his latest book, The Glass Cage, automation is gradually erasing the rough edges of our humanity. It’s not erasing all of them, however, and there is hope –...
View ArticleA Raid on the Inarticulate
Stav Sherez, author of the great A DARK REDEMPTION and the forthcoming ELEVEN DAYS (which I have yet to read) posted a really interesting piece on his blog last week (stavsherez.com ) about writing...
View ArticleThe Doppelgänger: Watch These Spaces
I don’t think it’s too much of a spoiler to say that my latest novel, Paradime, is a doppelgänger story. The original German word means “double walker”. In other words, there’s another you out there...
View ArticleSuperhero, actor, whatever.
This will get me roasted alive at home, where I have a twelve-year-old son who loves superhero movies. If anyone ever bothered to read this blog, I’d probably get roasted alive in the wider world, too....
View ArticleJason Bourne: What They Forgot
When The Bourne Legacy was released in 2012, the one thing missing from it, many people said, was Matt Damon. Well, the one thing missing from Jason Bourne, the latest instalment in the series, is Tony...
View ArticlePodcasts in the age of Trump
There are many things the incumbent in the White House has ruined. No need to list the big ones here, we all know what they are. I want to talk about a smaller one: listening to podcasts. Before the...
View ArticleProject MK-Ultra
In popular culture, the CIA has traditionally been portrayed as something of a sinister outfit, an image that probably dates back to the 1970s when a dark mood of suspicion and disillusionment was...
View ArticleNovember 22
JFK was assassinated fifty-five years ago today. Our collective obsession with this event has waxed and waned over the years. For those who remember it, or grew up in its slipstream, the fascination...
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