Since the day I decided to write, now is the longest period when I think the least about writing. Today I neither dream of becoming a full-time writer, nor write as much as I used to. Friends are always considerate to not point out that I may have gotten over her it. They ask. What [...]
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Sidney Lumet: A Director Directs
When I read this week that Sidney Lumet died, I was saddened because it never occurred to me that he would have to stop making movies on one dull day. The first Lumet’s movie that I watched was 12 Angry Men (1957). Instant fanhood. I watched it several times. The least I enjoyed it was when [...]
My 2010 in Books
2010 was a good year of books for me – a good mix of fiction and non-fiction, novels and short stories and memoirs, by writers old and young, acclaimed and establishing. I am a little unhappy to have only read 22 books, even without comparing with the wastrelette Weinman, but I am ecstatic about the [...]
A Letter to The New York Times Editor
To the Editor: There was a time when intelligent people used literature to think. That time is coming to an end. During the decades of the Cold War, in the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites, it was the serious writers who were expelled from literature; now, in America, it is literature that has [...]
Winding up the Millennium Trilogy
The last book of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy is not unpredictable. From the outset it is clear that the book will be about the final trial, which we know that Salander and her “Knights of the Idiotic Table” will win, despite the several new difficulties and dangers that the supporting cast face and survive from [...]