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Pod People: Brave New Worlds of Digital Audio Drama

For the last several months I have been lucky enough to have been on writing sabbatical from my university. As such, I have often found myself around and about my hometown during the day. I feel like I am a strange figure, writing in coffee shops, making enemies of baristas, running errands, and looking, to all but the most enlightened of observers, decadently unemployed. In an effort to stave off the effects of my increasingly sedentary life…

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Infrastructure and the Anthropocene in Tom McCarthy’s Satin Island

Andy Hageman October 30, 2016 No Comments 21st century literature Anthropocene C capital capitalism contemporary British fiction ideology imbrications infrastructural infrastructure Men in Space oil spill Remainder Satin Island systems theory Tom McCarthy

To read a Tom McCarthy novel is to find oneself weirdly and wildly awash in grids within grids, maps within maps, of infrastructural objects and systems. Protagonists and minor characters alike obsess over these objects and systems of infrastructure—over their grandeur, their minutiae, their flows and flaws, slows and jams, their symbolic ideological concretizations, their masterful and/or absurd designs, their volumes of strata.

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Bollywood Adaptations of Agatha Christie

Iain Robert Smith October 30, 2016 1 Comment adaptation studies adaptation theory Agatha Chrstie And Then There Were None BBC Adaptation 2015 Bollywood Gumnaam Helen Hindi-language film Jaan Pehechan Ho Raja Nawathe Shankar Jaikishan soundtrack Ten Little Indians The Hollywood Meme transnational adaptations

As the centrepiece of their Christmas 2015 schedule, BBC One screened an adaptation of Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. Scripted by Sarah Phelps and featuring a star-studded cast including Aiden Turner, Charles Dance, and Sam Neill, the adaptation was criticised in advance for deviating from its source material by “featuring drug abuse, gruesome violence and swearing” (Hastings 2015: n. pag.). After it was shown…

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Literary Annotation, from Poe to Twitter

John Roache October 30, 2016 No Comments Bret Easton Ellis David Foster Wallace Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone J. K. Rowling literary annotations marginalia new textual technologies

On the sixth of September 2012 Bret Easton Ellis tweeted: “Reading D. T. Max’s bio I continue to find David Foster Wallace the most tedious, overrated, tortured, pretentious writer of my generation…”. This article will be less interested in the judiciousness of Ellis’s findings—that debate seems unlikely to resolve itself any time soon—than in the form they take. “Reading D. T. Max’s bio:” the present tense suggests a pause for reflection, a moment…