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Gary

About Me


I'm the writer you see nursing a coffee for two hours in the corner of your cafe bar, with Kafka's complexion & Dostoevsky's wallet.
Camp in Literature was published by McFarland in USA, 2006. I classify camp as a style of writing for the first time in literature and ask who are the great camp authors. Feel free to read my Preface in an old January blog.
I have a Tony Wilson tribute in December 2007 issue of that fine magazine that came out of Chicago, Stop Smiling. And Stop Smiling published my satire on the 1970s' stampede of Tax Exiles from the UK. They also ran my review of Nixonland that will tell you what New Journalism is, too, should you care to know, along with the low-down on Rick Perlstein's fine book on Nixon.
My 2 articles for Sight & Sound discovered secret deleted scenes you can find in vintage movie trailers...and guided you through films set in New Orleans to wonder what will become of that rich cinematic tradition. My feature on the changing face of Berlin in cinema appeared in Film International June 2009. I've never been to Berlin. Never went to New Orleans. I don't even go to the cinema anymore.
My new book is pubished by McFarland: Kurt Vonnegut and the Centrifugal Force of Fate.
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    CAMP IN LITERATURE quote

An Ideal Husband sets the limitations on seriousness when Lord Goring cautions, “I only talk seriously on the first Tuesday in every month, from four to seven.” Any extension on this doctor’s surgery of seriousness “makes me talk in my sleep,” implying equivalence and contesting the common school of thought that esteems seriousness as truth itself.
As Wilde premiered Lady Windermere’s Fan, young E.F. Benson was writing a wonderfully frivolous novel called The Babe, whose protagonist wants to lose his baby-faced innocence. His Cambridge friend advises, “ ‘But you should take yourself more seriously. I believe that is very aging’.” Perhaps that is the untold moral of The Picture of Dorian Gray, too.

My Blog

Suicide Isn't Painless

The answer is No.I put the question in the Salford Advertiser, March 26, 2009, optimistically, I see now: Is it possible that Neil Hill, with a little help from fellow tenants who up to this minute f...
Posted by on Sun, 03 May 2009 00:30:00 GMT

ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY BAFFLED

My inherited dog wakes up full of WOW about the world, sprints up and down the landing because he can't wait to greet the morning.  The dog digs the day no matter the news.  Scampers out the back like...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:29:00 GMT

Wouldn't it be WOW

BATMAN: THE LONG HALLOWEEN, by Tim Sale and Jeph Loeb in 1997, is exquisite. Who'd have guessed?  I find it hard to care about plot, and this one is a lame attempt to string you along with a murder my...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Mar 2009 09:53:00 GMT

Salford City Reporter

Jaysus, Salford again.  Salford City Reporter?  That's what it was called before it got called The Advertiser: sign of the times.  And here's another crow to darken the sky: the local newspaper report...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:15:00 GMT

Life In Salford  Things To Do in Salford This Summer!

Life In Salford  Issue 55, March 2009Things To Do in Salford* This Summer!*Salford is twinned with Snowtown, Feral CityIf you are under 15 or even under 10 and you live in Salford, you can join in th...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:29:00 GMT

the news the news the news the news the news

Before you can leave the railway station, a huckster with a clipboard, dodged deftly by a Dame, taps you with a soundbite and dubs thee Sir, so you stonewall him out the station and, as you cross the ...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:19:00 GMT

Preface to KURT VONNEGUT AND THE CENTRIFUGAL FORCE OF FATE

.. | | Time is happening in all tenses at once.  Any Tralfamadorian knows that.  Wristwatches are science fiction.  Real time makes before, during and after as rando...
Posted by on Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:00:00 GMT

NOTEBOOK

Ongoing notebook of anything that catches my eye...[From: The Eloquent Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Bill Adler (ed.).  New York, 2004: William Morrow. p.115...]"There's something brewing that might tur...
Posted by on Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:00:00 GMT

Simon Armitage

I'm not the first to compare Simon Armitage with Alan Bennett.  There's something flatfoot about the Yorkshire tone in their writing.  A pedestrian pace and a casual tone and a domestic figu...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:44:00 GMT

Honesty is Controversial

This is a DVD review of a 2007 documentary feature called JIMMY CARTER - MAN FROM PLAINS, directed by Jonathan Damme.This is an important documentary not in film-making technique but as a vehicle for ...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:52:00 GMT