Recent Posts
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Quick Book Review: “The Passenger” by Cormac McCarthy
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I’ve been a fan of Cormac McCarthy since reading his Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Road while in college. Very soon after reading it, I incorporated it into my seminar paper on post-apocalyptic depictions in literature during my junior year at Princeton. Since then, I’ve meticulously added more of McCarthy’s…
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You Gave Me Life, Now Show Me How to Live
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This seems like the perfect pair of shows to launch my inaugural Spec Fic Archives blog. I’ll be honest, I always get a little queasy when I delve into the idea of writing about theatre, but I’m going to do it anyway. My preference is to focus strictly on storytelling,…
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Hamlet and My Problems: Infinity, Madness, and Literary Paralysis
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While much of this site has primarily concerned itself with the nexus of film and screenwriting, I expect that this will change more and more in the near future. I’ve had a religious conversion of sorts back to the written word. A repentance brought on by night visions and fever…