http://wehavebeards.com Discussing Movies, Books, Music, TV, Art and Food Fri, 08 Jul 2011 20:51:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://wehavebeards.com/2010/11/16/official-green-lantern-trailer-hits/ http://wehavebeards.com/2010/11/16/official-green-lantern-trailer-hits/#comments Wed, 17 Nov 2010 03:11:19 +0000 Red Beard http://wehavebeards.com/?p=2434 http://wehavebeards.com/2010/11/16/official-green-lantern-trailer-hits/feed/ 2 http://wehavebeards.com/2010/08/19/black-beard-returns-with-advice-for-young-writers-youre-going-to-be-poor-and-probably-never-succeed/ http://wehavebeards.com/2010/08/19/black-beard-returns-with-advice-for-young-writers-youre-going-to-be-poor-and-probably-never-succeed/#comments Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:29:46 +0000 Black Beard http://wehavebeards.com/?p=2198 When the AWP conference was held in New York City a few years ago, I attended a discussion panel focused on the ways an up and coming writer could make a living without going into academia. At one point during the question and answer period a young woman, apparently dissatisfied with the advice given thus [...]]]> http://wehavebeards.com/2010/08/19/black-beard-returns-with-advice-for-young-writers-youre-going-to-be-poor-and-probably-never-succeed/feed/ 1 http://wehavebeards.com/2010/07/01/black-beard-gloats-in-your-face-print-media/ http://wehavebeards.com/2010/07/01/black-beard-gloats-in-your-face-print-media/#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:39:46 +0000 Black Beard http://wehavebeards.com/?p=1746 When I was traveling through the Midwest about a month ago, I randomly took a copy of the Wall Street Journal from the lobby of my hotel on the way out one morning, and on the front page was an article about the growing popularity of digital books. The reporting focused specifically on the rise [...]]]> http://wehavebeards.com/2010/07/01/black-beard-gloats-in-your-face-print-media/feed/ 0 http://wehavebeards.com/2010/06/25/black-beards-review-of-contemporary-fiction-and-ancient-philosophy-aristotle-and-flannery-oconnor/ http://wehavebeards.com/2010/06/25/black-beards-review-of-contemporary-fiction-and-ancient-philosophy-aristotle-and-flannery-oconnor/#comments Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:39:10 +0000 Black Beard http://wehavebeards.com/?p=1691 In Poetics, Aristotle offers two valuable observations about the creation of art. First, and most significantly, Aristotle tells us “not to know that a hind has no horns is a less serious matter than to paint it inartistically”. In other words, it is less important for a writer not to be fully informed about the [...]]]> http://wehavebeards.com/2010/06/25/black-beards-review-of-contemporary-fiction-and-ancient-philosophy-aristotle-and-flannery-oconnor/feed/ 1 http://wehavebeards.com/2010/06/23/the-first-trailer-for-seth-rogenmichel-gondrys-the-green-hornet/ http://wehavebeards.com/2010/06/23/the-first-trailer-for-seth-rogenmichel-gondrys-the-green-hornet/#comments Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:32:01 +0000 Red Beard http://wehavebeards.com/?p=1669 http://wehavebeards.com/2010/06/23/the-first-trailer-for-seth-rogenmichel-gondrys-the-green-hornet/feed/ 2 http://wehavebeards.com/2010/06/18/black-beards-guide-to-establishing-a-foundation-for-your-literary-arrogance-and-condescension/ http://wehavebeards.com/2010/06/18/black-beards-guide-to-establishing-a-foundation-for-your-literary-arrogance-and-condescension/#comments Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:12:39 +0000 Black Beard http://wehavebeards.com/?p=1619 Recently a friend asked me to make a list of books I would recommend for someone who would like to read some serious literature, and in doing so, I realized that a list like this could serve as a useful primer for anyone who reads what I write in this space. That being said, what [...]]]> http://wehavebeards.com/2010/06/18/black-beards-guide-to-establishing-a-foundation-for-your-literary-arrogance-and-condescension/feed/ 0 http://wehavebeards.com/2010/06/16/black-beard-on-literary-criticism-now-and-in-the-24th-century/ http://wehavebeards.com/2010/06/16/black-beard-on-literary-criticism-now-and-in-the-24th-century/#comments Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:35:46 +0000 Black Beard http://wehavebeards.com/?p=1606 I’m always interested in tracing the lineage of art, of finding an indication of what influenced an artist, and of discovering what aspects of a past novel, for instance, have been adopted and repeated by contemporary novelists. It’s a small thing, but I feel as though I more thoroughly understand Philip Roth’s American Pastoral when [...]]]> http://wehavebeards.com/2010/06/16/black-beard-on-literary-criticism-now-and-in-the-24th-century/feed/ 0 http://wehavebeards.com/2010/04/14/black-beards-review-of-books-he-doesnt-want-to-read-the-corrections/ http://wehavebeards.com/2010/04/14/black-beards-review-of-books-he-doesnt-want-to-read-the-corrections/#comments Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:33:34 +0000 Black Beard http://wehavebeards.com/?p=1263 I’ve been reading Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections. What can I say? Or, really, where should I begin? It’s a Post-Modern novel, by which I mean that it’s not terribly dense, nor terribly engrossing, nor terribly interesting. In fact, in an earlier draft I wrote of this post I found the process of breaking down the [...]]]> http://wehavebeards.com/2010/04/14/black-beards-review-of-books-he-doesnt-want-to-read-the-corrections/feed/ 3 http://wehavebeards.com/2010/03/23/black-beards-review-of-books-no-one-wants-to-read-the-good-soldier/ http://wehavebeards.com/2010/03/23/black-beards-review-of-books-no-one-wants-to-read-the-good-soldier/#comments Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:41:49 +0000 Black Beard http://wehavebeards.com/?p=1143 I was recently accepted to a PhD program I applied to at the end of last year, and as part of my acceptance, I’ve been awarded a teaching fellowship. At first I will be given only freshman composition courses, but as I gain more experience I will have the opportunity in subsequent years to oversee [...]]]> http://wehavebeards.com/2010/03/23/black-beards-review-of-books-no-one-wants-to-read-the-good-soldier/feed/ 0 http://wehavebeards.com/2010/03/09/black-beards-review-of-books-no-one-wants-to-read-raymond-carver/ http://wehavebeards.com/2010/03/09/black-beards-review-of-books-no-one-wants-to-read-raymond-carver/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:24:18 +0000 Black Beard http://wehavebeards.com/?p=1026 I just finished Other Colors by Orhan Pamuk, which I’ve mentioned briefly before, but which I would like to write about again, in a way, because of many topics covered in the book to which I responded.  For example, Pamuk writes in several places about returning later in life to books he read in his [...]]]> http://wehavebeards.com/2010/03/09/black-beards-review-of-books-no-one-wants-to-read-raymond-carver/feed/ 1