NEIGHBOURHOOD
The little cinema space that could closes its doors
by Matthew Hays
18.05.2012
As much as I’d like to declare it the end of an era, to do so would be a bit of a stretch. After all, the Blue Sunshine Cinema will only be two years old when it closes its doors for the final time tonight. Not long enough to be an era, even by the [...]
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BOOKS
Death In Venice: A Queer Film Classic, by Will Aitken, Arsenal Pulp Press
by Will Aitken
24.01.2012
Writing non-fiction’s a bitch – a truth not universally acknowledged. You’ll hear fiction writers, especially novelists (I’ve written five, published three), going on about their own heroism. How wrenching it is, day after day, to dredge up eternal truths from the dank depths of their souls. One man (it would be a man) even told me writing a novel is “like going to war.” I like to picture him deep in a muddy trench, rats nibbling at his toes, his laptop powered by only the heat from his cojones. Yet another writer maintained it’s the moral rigor of the long fictional haul that drives novelists to drugs and drink. That’s a man with, in addition to possible substance abuse issues, a bad case of post hoc ergo propter hoc. (Actually, it was drugs that drove me to write novels, but that’s another story.)
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