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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Finishing the Novel
Posted by Jürgen on December 28, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/12/28/finishing-the-novel/
Atonement
A booby-trapped tale of wartime love and guilt, adapted from the great Ian McEwan, who has been mining the darker recesses of desire since First Love, Last Rites (1975). Joe Wright directs an excellent cast — Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Romola Garai, Vanessa Redgrave, and newcomer Saoirse Ronan — in what begins like a standard [...]
Posted by Jürgen on November 16, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/11/16/atonement/
Angel
From highly enjoyable exercises in pop style (8 Women) to over-conceptualized constructs that left me completely cold (5×2), Francois Ozon’s films are hit-or-miss. Misgivings about his adaptation of the novel by Elizabeth Taylor arose the moment the snooty Berlin box office dude made fun of our choice of movie — was this really going to [...]
Posted by Jürgen on September 14, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/09/14/angel/
Marcy in the New York Times
What good is having your own blog if you can’t brag about your girl? In a piece about MySpace and the book world in the New York Times Book Review, Pagan Kennedy devoted a paragraph to Marcy and her pioneering use of MySpace to promote Twins. I confess I used to hide the occasional sneer [...]
Posted by Jürgen on September 4, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/09/04/marcy-in-the-new-york-times/
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