When British actor Steve Coogan (“Tristram Shandy,” “The Trip”) felt pigeonholed in both the UK and the US, he just bought a story and co-wrote the screenplay, including a dramatic part for himself.
Artists Struggle In The Age Of The Blockbuster
“In fact, the blockbuster artistic product is dominating cultural consumption as at no other time in history. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on each successive Hunger Games, and the rep cinemas have closed. A few sports stars are paid more individually than entire publishing houses or record labels earn in a year.”
The New Literary Season Is Upon Us (Help!)
“Those of us in the business mostly dread the release of the Scotiabank Giller Prize long list because of whom it will exclude and thus throw deep into the sludge of eternal obscurity. The recent addition of a long list, released weeks before the short list, creates, paradoxically, additional terror because now that almost every novel released in the fall makes it onto the list, the ignominy of exclusion is even more significant.”