Luca Guadagnino, director of the movie “Queer” (quoted in The New York Times, 20 November 2024):
Every movie is a documentary about the actor playing the character.”
Monthly Archives: November 2024
Poor writing from famous writers
I have long thought Australian author Thomas Keneally writes very badly, at least in his mother tongue. A stunning new example of his poor writing skills is the opening sentence – the opening sentence, mind! – of an invited letter that appears in the latest issue of the Australian long-form magazine, Quarterly Essay (Issue 96, November 2024, page 91). Keneally’s words:
What I like about Watson’s mind is his capacity to connect the mytho-poetic to the political, and he can do it without hearing from him, generally, any grunt of effort.”