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What would Cormac McCarthy’s Toy Story 3 look like?

Here’s the answer: (more…)

You think that historic Wimbledon showdown was intense? Wait’ll you see this… (more…)

Here is a two-part conversation about The Secret of Kells, published in the Good Letters blog at Image journal: Part One and Part Two

Here’s a four-minute video of Wendell Berry responding to the oil spill.

And here’s what Brian Volck says about the disaster in today’s Good Letters post: (more…)

What book did C.S. Lewis call “almost the most beautiful book in English”? (more…)

Variety reports:

Mpower Pictures (“The Stoning of Soraya M.”) and Beloved Pictures are teaming to co-produce C.S. Lewis’ fantasy novel “The Great Divorce.”

Veteran producer and Mpower CEO Steve McEveety will lead the production team. Childrens’ book author N.D. Wilson (“Leepike Ridge,” “100 Cupboards”) is attached to write.

Lewis, who wrote the “Chronicles of Narnia” books and often wove Christian themes into his works, published “The Great Divorce” in 1945. Story centers on a man who learns that the sprawling, dim metropolis where he’s been living is actually Hell; he hops on a bus headed for the outskirts of Elsewhere, only to discover that the one place worse than Hell, for a self-absorbed ad executive, just might be Heaven.

Mpower was created by McEveety in 2007 after he’d been a longtime exec at Mel Gibson’s Icon Prods. He produced “The Passion of the Christ” and “We Were Soldiers” and exec produced “Braveheart” and “What Women Want.” . . .

I asked Scott Nolte, the producing artistic director of Seattle’s Taproot Theatre, what he thought of this. Why Scott? He just wrapped up a successful stage production of the show in Seattle. (more…)

Okay, I’m not really looking for ideas about how to end The Auralia Thread.

The first draft of The Ale Boy’s Feast is very roughly drafted, and by the time the fireworks go off on the 4th, I’ll have given a readable version to the editors. (It feels like I’m preparing to take a patient with worrying symptoms to the doctor to await a diagnosis.)

I know how it ends. And I get a little shaky just thinking about the questions that I won’t pursue to full resolution, and the unexpected resolutions that have emerged for characters like the Ale Boy, Cal-raven, Jordam the beastman, loyal Tabor Jan, and the elusive mage Scharr ben Fray.

But working on this, and watching Toy Story 3, has me wondering… (more…)

“Revealing The Secret of Kells – Part Two”: My conversation with Steven Greydanus continues at Image journal’s blog.

Have you seen The Secret of Kells? What did you think? (more…)

Exercise has proved a challenge for me in the last few years. Deadlines demand I spend most of my evenings and weekends writing. But it’s been hard on my health, so lately I’ve been working hard to get three or four workouts in per week, either hiking or on a stationary bike (while I watch movies for review). I definitely notice a difference. I get more creative ideas when I exercise.

What about you? Do you see a connection between creativity and exercise?

And now, I have more motivation to exercise!

I can cool off after my workout with one of my favorite things… (more…)

So… I stumbled onto these two quotes within a few seconds of one another…

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