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My Secret Science Fiction Past
Perhaps not so secret, but I was raised on the stuff and so I’ve read far more of it than I might have had I been born into a different environment. This list of Gollancz ...
Bill Douglas: My Ain Folk
This is the second part of Douglas’s three-part trilogy about his childhood, and generally the best known, though the whole thing has now been released on DVD. It’s black and white, stark, restrained, and depressing. ...
J.M. Coetzee: Summertime
We have been here before, albeit in different forms. Almost without exception, Coetzee’s work from Elizabeth Costello on has been concerned with the role of authors and authorship, not only of fiction but of memoirs ...
Christmas Cheer from Carl Barks and Donald Duck
A few happy memories from childhood, courtesy of the most fatalistic comic books ever written for children. First a bit from a censored story, “Silent Night,” written in 1945 but never published until 1981: The ...
Jean Eustache: Mes petites amoureuses
Childhood, says the Children’s Encyclopaedia, is a time of innocent joy, to be spent in the meadows amid buttercups and bunny-rabbits or at the hearthside absorbed in a storybook. It is a vision of childhood ...
Dennis Potter: Blue Remembered Hills
I was thinking about this old tv play (available entirely on youtube, hooray) in connection with two other old French films about childhood that I recently saw, Naked Childhood and My Little Loves. As much ...
Roberto Bolaño: The Savage Detectives
Q: You are Chilean, Spanish or Mexican? A: I am Latin American. (Roberto Bolaño) This is a long book–too long, in fact–but it makes its point. Bolano, who died a few years back as a ...