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Watching and Writing Thoughts
Apr. 13th, 2025 08:43 amWatching
I have been fond of criticizing literary fiction as "a book written by a male middle-aged professor of English Lit, starring a male middle-aged professor of English Lit who discovers that having sex with an undergrad really fucks up his life." Last night I watched the much-hyped movie Babygirl and felt it was a sex-swapped example of literary fiction.
So, in the movie, the then 56-year-old Kidman plays a CEO who has an affair with a 20-something intern. There's a bit of (very mild) kinkiness in their relationship but plot-wise it's pretty standard fare. I do give props to Kidman as her role requires a lot of vulnerability. Overall, I found the movie merely okay, I think because I found it extremely predictable.
Writing
In writing notes, I am 95% finished with a submittable draft of my thriller novel "What the Bank Robber Saw." The book, set in a fictional small East Central Illinois town, stars a bank robber who has unexpected complications after robbing a bank. It's based on an idea I've been noodling with for at least a decade, that of a smart bank robber who only robs one bank a year.
In other writing notes, I received editorial notes on my science fiction novel "Gunmaker" and am 99% finished with my response to same. Go me?
I have been fond of criticizing literary fiction as "a book written by a male middle-aged professor of English Lit, starring a male middle-aged professor of English Lit who discovers that having sex with an undergrad really fucks up his life." Last night I watched the much-hyped movie Babygirl and felt it was a sex-swapped example of literary fiction.
So, in the movie, the then 56-year-old Kidman plays a CEO who has an affair with a 20-something intern. There's a bit of (very mild) kinkiness in their relationship but plot-wise it's pretty standard fare. I do give props to Kidman as her role requires a lot of vulnerability. Overall, I found the movie merely okay, I think because I found it extremely predictable.
Writing
In writing notes, I am 95% finished with a submittable draft of my thriller novel "What the Bank Robber Saw." The book, set in a fictional small East Central Illinois town, stars a bank robber who has unexpected complications after robbing a bank. It's based on an idea I've been noodling with for at least a decade, that of a smart bank robber who only robs one bank a year.
In other writing notes, I received editorial notes on my science fiction novel "Gunmaker" and am 99% finished with my response to same. Go me?
