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Growr!

May 3, 2011 Culture

I always like stuff like this.  Last week, I noted that the good folks at ShoulderHill Entertainment are moving forward with plans to film my horror screenplay Bury The Dead later this year.  SH’s Steven Addair, who plans to direct, sent me this artist’s rendering of one of the script’s ancillary characters: Roseanne Barr has [...]

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Me on Fiction

April 28, 2011 Culture

I promised I’d link to the speech I gave on Conservatism in American Fiction at the Horowitz Freedom Center Retreat a few weeks back. Here it is:

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Me in Fangoria

April 26, 2011 Culture

You’ll notice over in the news section to your left that ShoulderHill Entertainment has been making some progress toward filming my horror screenplay “Bury the Dead,” which they’ve got under option.  ShoulderHill’s Steven Addair, who’ll direct the film, recently discussed this and other projects with Fangoria – America’s horror magazine.  You can read the interview [...]

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Storms and Mortals

April 19, 2011 Culture

I’m on the road this week and so won’t be blogging much, though there should be a new Klavan on the Culture from the crazies at PJTV up on Thursday. BTW, I flew into New York from Virginia, through North and South Carolina, on Saturday, the day the big storms hit all those states.  It was, [...]

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Klavan to GLAAD: Drop Dead!

April 18, 2011 Culture

Let me preface this by saying, as I often have, that I respectfully and even lovingly disagree with many of my fellow conservatives and Christians on the matter of homosexuality. I think gays are part of God’s good creation, and whatever their individual private sins, they are between each of them and God and have [...]

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Game: Donkey Kong Country Returns

April 14, 2011 Culture

One of the troubles with technological art forms is that the technology sometimes forces the shape of the art.  Alfred Hitchcock used to complain about this in the movies, even though he was always one of the first to experiment with whatever  new technology came along.  He wasn’t convinced that sound improved film (note Vertigo [...]

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The Minds of Conservatives & Liberals

April 12, 2011 Culture

Here’s a wisely skeptical article over at PsychCentral’s Therapy Soup about yet another one of those studies showing that liberals’ brains are different than those of conservatives. According to what is known about the functions of those two brain regions, the structural differences are consistent with some reports showing a greater ability of liberals to [...]

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Film: “Hereafter”

April 6, 2011 Culture

Great director (Clint Eastwood), attractive cast (led by Matt Damon), talented screenwriter (Peter Morgan), interesting subject (uh, death) – and none of it works.  That’s showbiz. I hate to blame the screenwriter for anything because I know from experience that he has little say in what finally makes it to the screen.  But whoever’s responsible, the [...]

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Me on Beowulf

March 29, 2011 Books

As I’ve mentioned here before, the essay collection Thrillers:  100 Must Reads has been nominated for an Edgar by the Mystery Writers of America.  The awards will be given later this month.  The book contains my essay on Beowulf, which I’ve been given permission to reprint in full here–the essay, not Beowulf.   BEOWULF (between [...]

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Breitbart in Context

March 28, 2011 Culture

A peculiar cultural moment occurred at my house this past Christmas season. I was chatting with my friend Andrew Breitbart when his phone rang. As the conservative web-meister took the call, I occupied my time by idly paging through my son’s nearby Mad Magazine—and was startled to find a caricature of Andrew in there. “Right [...]

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