The Dictatorship of Taste – and James Bond
At the Observer, someone named Neal Gabler laments the death of professional criticism at the hands of the Internet. Elsewhere on the Observer site, the critics respond. This whole “The Internet is...
View ArticleThe link between the Occupy movement and V for Vendetta or Downton Abbey...
I have come across a lot of interesting links of late, so here is a linkdump: Sherwood Smith points out this post by livejournal user blairmacg who wonders whether the rise of social media is bringing...
View ArticleGone Away Linkdump
From tomorrow on I’ll be in the UK for a couple of days. In urgent cases, I can still be contacted via e-mail or cellphone. And the office is still occupied in case someone desperately needs to get...
View ArticleChristopher Priest does it again
After making waves earlier this year by finding the Clarke Award shortlist inadequate (I posted about that controversy here, here and here), Christopher Priest – the SFF genre’s resident old curmudgeon...
View ArticleA nice surprise in the mail and some links
I got a really nice surprise in my (snail) mail today, when I found a thick envelope from my cousin in my mailbox. Inside were a birthday card (a little late, because we’ve been having postal strikes...
View ArticleIn Memoriam Marcel Reich-Ranicki
One of my personal literary heroes, Polish-German literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki, died today aged 93. Here is a wonderful tribute from Kulturzeit with plenty of Reich-Ranicki clips and here are...
View ArticleMore German Book Award Reactions and German SF
Denis Scheck, probably Germany’s most outspoken and snarkiest literary critic now Marcel Reich-Ranicki has left us, is even less happy about the German Book Prize than me. At any rate, he called...
View ArticleTwo more literary deaths: Hellmuth Karasek and Ellis Kaut
2015 has been a bad year for German literature and a bad year for celebrity deaths in general. Now we lost two more literary greats in the space of a few days, critic and writer Hellmuth Karasek, who...
View ArticleDas Literarische Quartett Reloaded
Hot on the heels of the deaths of Hellmuth Karasek, one third of the original Literarisches Quartett (no, that’s not a typo), came the revival of what was once the preeminent literary program on German...
View ArticleDas Literarische Quartett Reloaded, Take 2, or the State of Literary...
Don’t worry, I’m not planning to review every episode of the revived Literarisches Quartett, a literature discussion program on German TV (For more information about the program in general, see my...
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