Abdellah Taia, now 40, emigrated to Paris in his mid-20s, but his work is rooted in his homeland, and his newly-released film, Salvation Army, was set and filmed there. He talks about how conditions are improving – slowly – for gays in Morocco, and about his own feeling toward Islam and Muslim civilization.
Tag: 09.06.13
Harper Lee Settles Copyright Theft Suit Against Agent
The 87-year-old author of To Kill a Mockingbird “is dropping her big bucks lawsuit against her former agent Samuel Pinkus and others she’d charged had conned her out of the copyright to her novel, widely considered one of the greatest in American history.”
What’s The Most Important Thing Bill T. Jones Has Learned About Collaborating?
“You don’t have to win every fight. … Learning to say, ‘OK, let’s try it your way’ has been the most liberating thing for me. Solutions come when you don’t work too hard.”
Where The Hashtag, Pilcrow, And Ampersand Came From
Keith Houston, owner of the blog Shady Characters, recounts the origin stories of these odd punctuation marks – and explains how the hashtag got the name “pound sign”.
We’re Still A Long Way Off From Understanding How The Brain Works. But Here’s Something…
“The result of such work is a new, unified science of mind that uses the combined power of cognitive psychology and neuroscience to examine the great remaining mysteries of mind: how we think, feel and experience ourselves as conscious human beings.”
A.C. Crispin, 63, Author Who Fought For Writers
“As an author, she helped carve a space for women writing science fiction. She helped prove media tie-in novels could be great books in their own right. And she fought for writers to get treated fairly, with the indispensable site Writer Beware.”
Does The Smithsonian Institute Need To Fix & Then Reissue Its Classic Jazz Colletion?
Probably. But what’s the fix?
Does The U.S. Really Have ‘Immigrant Fiction’?
Author Jhumpa Lahiri: “What do we call the rest? Native fiction? Puritan fiction? This distinction doesn’t agree with me.”
Indian Author Who Escaped From The Taliban In the ’90s Killed In Afghanistan
“Banerjee grabbed headlines in 1995 with her book ‘A Kabuliwala’s Bengali Wife,’ which recounts her story of marrying her Afghan husband and moving to Afghanistan to be with him. It also talks about her dramatic escape from the region after the Taliban threatened her.”
Sir Ian McKellen Tapped To Play Sherlock Holmes
Let the concomitant squeeing and whining begin: “The film, A Slight Trick Of The Mind, will be adapted from Mitch Cullin’s novel of the same name. Set in 1947, Sir Ian will play an elderly Sherlock, who is still trying to crack an unsolved, 50-year-old case.”