We’ve opened the Fictionaut blog to the public at http://blog.fictionaut.com. This is where I’ll continue to announce site news along with short interviews with members such as Tania Hershman, Keith Lee Morris, Matt Bondurant, and (upcoming!) Tayari Jones, as well as selections of favorite Fictionaut stories — so far, we’ve featured Frederick Barthelme, Ami Greko, [...]
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"A fast, complex, exhilarating roadster ride through history and time.... Kino is an intoxicating Euro-brew, written with enormous skill and dedication." — Frederick Barthelme
"Jürgen Fauth's deft mashup of genre and historical period is both a full-throttle literary thriller of ideas and a contemplative examination of film and fascism. Kino is a debut of great intellectual force."– Teddy Wayne
"A surprising alternative history. Kino brings the golden age of German cinema to light with loving, sometimes gritty, detail and great precision." – Neal Pollack, author of Jewball.
"A delirious melange of conspiracy, magic, sex, history, bad behavior, and cinema, Kino is a stellar entertainment, and Jürgen Fauth is a writer of rare, sinister imagination." – Owen King, author of Reenactment
"A light-hearted romp that leads straight into darkness and back through the shadows on the wall."– Ben Loory, author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
"Movie nuts arise! A happy and felicitous debut."– Terese Svoboda
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Mississippi Review Movie Issue
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 [...]
Posted by Jürgen on April 7, 2008
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/04/07/mississippi-review-movie-issue/
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier
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 [...]
Posted by Jürgen on January 30, 2008
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/01/30/league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen-black-dossier/
Beowulf
Robert Zemeckis’ high-tech “performance capture” adaptation of the Old English poem turns actors–Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Robin Wright Penn, John Malkovich, Angelina Jolie–into rubbery action figures. Only Crispin Glover, covered in a disgusting, festering texture, manages to infuse some sort of twisted soul into his Grendel. I saw this in 3-D, which is sorta groovy [...]
Posted by Jürgen on November 14, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/11/14/beowulf/
Cat’s Cradle
Forget dog-eared: my copy of Cat’s Cradle is a torn-up mess. Still, I took Verylin Klinkenborg‘s advice (mentioned earlier) and revisited the book for the first time in decades. It turns out Klinkenborg’s spot on: Vonnegut’s work is so rich with wit and truth, it deserves to be read outside of a dorm room, by [...]
Posted by Jürgen on April 29, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/04/29/cats-cradle/
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