We’re proud to present the April issue of the Mississippi Review Web, dedicated to fiction inspired by the movies. Check it out at MississippiReview.com or go straight to the pdf download. Featuring:
Brandon Scott Gorrell: Godzilla
Colin Bassett: Dance Party, U.S.A.
Emma Garman: Talking with Françoise Sagan
John Minichillo: Nearly Here
Katherine A. Gleason: Fred Astaire Refuses
Lori Romero: Rockfall
Meghan [...]
Mar 16th, 2008
by Jürgen.
None of the movies I saw this week thrilled as much as the conclusion to the first part of T. H. White’s The Once and Future King. After 200 pages of young Wart’s education, we finally get to the part about the sword in the stone. It’s Merlyn’s final lesson, presented in a hallucinatory [...]
Jan 30th, 2008
by Jürgen.
I shelve my Alan Moore books next to Thomas Pynchon, Umberto Eco, and Jorge Luis Borges, and I am sure all three postmodern masters would get a healthy kick out of this wildly imaginative third book to Moore’s Gentlemen series, which draws on a vast storehouse of influences and blends them into an ecstatic new [...]
Jan 15th, 2008
by Jürgen.
Marcy and I will be editing the Spring issue of the Mississippi Review Web. Here’s the call for submissions. Please feel free to forward this to any and all interested parties, and to post wherever appropriate.
24 Words Per Second: The Movies Issue
We are writers who watch a lot of movies. Maybe it’s no surprise that [...]