Novel Journey’s Ane Mulligan just posted her conversation with me about Auralia’s Colors. These are the questions she asked: Time to crow: What new book or project do you have coming out? How did you come up with this story? Was there a specific ‘what if’ moment? You write movie reviews for Christianity Today. How did you get into that? Every novelist has a journey. You say on your blog you dreamed about your first novel since you were five. That’s... Read more
Rabble-rousing film blogger Jeffrey Wells has unleashed a monster of a response to Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood. (more…) Read more
¬† Last year’s Christmas was aglow with new music from Over the Rhine (Snow Angels). This year’s Christmas will glimmer with the enchanting guitar stylings of The Innocence Mission’s Don Peris. And the proceeds go to bring shelter to those in need. Read more
If you haven’t heard Raising Sand, you’re in for a treat. Who would have thought that we’d ever see the collaboration by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss? Who was bold enough to dream they’d perform songs by Tom Waits and Sam Phillips (the two finest tracks on the album)? Even better, they’re joined by guitarist Marc Ribot and drummer Jay Bellerose. And the wizard behind the curtain is T-Bone Burnett, who keeps things turned down to a simmer. He holds... Read more
My friend and colleague Steven Greydanus also happens to be one of my favorite film critics. And like the interesting “Christian hate mail” I describe in my book Through a Screen Darkly, Greydanus gets plenty of amazing (and disgusting) mail in his mailbox too. You can check out his latest batch of questions-and-answers here. (more…) Read more
You can now download the podcast of Sheridan Voysey’s radio program where I discussed the power of movies with him a couple of weeks ago. (I mentioned this broadcast a few days back.) Of the many on-air conversations about movies I’ve enjoyed, this was one of my favorites. Read more
It seems that almost every year, there are one or two themes that emerge on the big screen… themes so persistent and vigorously investigated that you wonder if somebody somewhere called a meeting and planned for the films to correspond. Last week, I realized what I would argue to be this year’s most prominent theme: The elusive nature of evil. No matter what folks try to accomplish, the dark side is getting the better of things, and escaping every strategy... Read more
I’m going back into a period of intense imagining, polishing up the sequel to Auralia’s Colors. So, offline I’ll be rather antisocial for the next few weeks, and my blogging may slow down a bit. By the way, did I mention that I’ll send you autographed copies of Auralia’s Colors if you want to give them as Christmas presents? Just follow the instructions. Or, if you prefer not to have any ink scrawled on the title page, just pick them up at your local bookstore, or... Read more
This just in: Taking a cue from Radiohead, Paste is now letting you pay whatever you want for a one-year subscription. You name your own price for 11 issues of the magazine plus 11 free CDs (one in each issue!). Visit http://www.pastemagazine.com and follow the banners to name your price! Normally, a one-year subscription is $19.95, and it would cost more than $60 to buy each issue from the newsstand all year. But for a limited time, YOU get to... Read more
Can we handle the truth? In Sara Zarr’s first novel, Story of a Girl, one young woman’s life is almost spoiled by the truth… at least when it comes to the details of her biggest mistake. When young Deanna’s misguided adventure with an older boy in a car is exposed for all the world to see, she is forced to live with the consequences. Her peers, her community, her family… no one can meet her gaze in quite the same... Read more
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