3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
An amnesiac action hero who battles a mystifying web of enemies, Jason Bourne has outlived his author. David Samuels considers the enduring appeal of the kicking, punching, paranoiac babe in the woods. David Samuels in The National: The news that...
The Guardian Books Blog (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
"At the end of the story, the hints that have been scattered like mouse droppings lead us to the postmodern hole in the book where the rodent got in": James Wood, as you might have guessed, is really not terribly keen on Paul Auster . • How Jason Bourne survived his author, only to be horribly tortured . • On books as an investment (broadly: you never can tell )....
fictions (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
... a clever and intriguing bit of comics; think Prisoner, Spooks, Avengers and maybe even a hint of Jason Bourne. It’s got sufficient promise of nasty dealings, betrayal, high level intrigue and a very hard boiled feel. There’s even a flashback to a scene from Ancient Rome that makes no sense whatsoever in the course of this introduction but does work quite brilliantly as...
This good life goes on... (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
I really like the trip to Bournemouth, east along the A35. This post consists of my Tweet-like responses to the journey. At Honiton there's this weird terracotta turret-house with battlements. You've got to wonder who designed it. At least their post shouldn't go astray. Later on a sign to 'Triffords' and thought perhaps it was a cunning mis-spelling to throw us off track while the homicidal...
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Filed under: Video , UK A decade on from Moby 's commercial high water mark, 1999's 'Play,' he has shown himself to be a survivor. And one with no sign of letting his foot off the pedal. The downbeat dance DJ who has brought slavery-era spirituals to the dance generation, remixed the James Bond theme and given Jason Bourne a soundtrack to drive Minis very fast in grey Paris streets,...
