I was today years old when I learned that novelist Erica "Fear of Flying" Jong was married to novelist Jonathan Fast, son of better-known novelist Howard Fast. Their daughter, Molly Jong-Fast, is also a writer.

#EricaJong #HowardFast #JonathanFast #MollyJongFast

#mirage di #EdwardDmytryk Tratto dal romanzo di #HowardFast – già autore di #spartacus pubblicato nel 1951, che ispirò #KirkDouglas e #StanleyKubrick per l’omonimo film, e fra le vittime più illustri del #Maccartismo – “Mirage”, oltre ad essere un classico e claustrofobico noir con tutti i crismi, tocca argomenti che diverranno molti comuni negli anni successivi come la pace nel mondo, il lato oscuro delle grandi società benefiche... #unocinema #unofilm #cinema #film

https://www.valeriotagliaferri.it/?p=2898

“Mirage” di Edward Dmytryk | Valerio Tagliaferri

EVANGELION prima di EVANGELION

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"Zen is a quiet thing. It listens."

– Howard Fast

Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Fast #HowardFast

El 11 de noviembre de 1914
nace en Nueva York,
🖊️#HowardFast
Morirá en 2003.
Se le recuerda, sobre todo,
como escritor de #NovelaHistórica
gracias a,
📖Espartaco
Novela en que se basó la mítica
película de🎥#StanleyKubrick
Aunque también escribió buena #NovelaNegra y policíaca.

“I’m Spartacus”

The first draft of the screenplay for #Spartacus was written by #HowardFast, but he wasn’t quick enough to finish the job in time. Arthur Koestler’s The Gladiators, a movie with a similar theme, was on the way to production, and Kirk Douglas’s production company, Bryna Productions, which was producing Spartacus, needed to beat it to the screen.
So Douglas turned to the fastest pen in the West, #DaltonTrumbo — signed under the pseudonym Sam Jackson.

https://jacobin.com/2023/09/trumbo-fast-spartacus-hollywood-blacklists-red-scare

How Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus Broke the Hollywood Blacklists

Telling the story of a slave revolt in ancient Rome, the 1960 film Spartacus was penned by two blacklisted Communist writers. Its arrival in theaters was a middle finger to the McCarthyist witch hunt in Hollywood and publishing.

I always thought that socialism here would be peculiarly American, with some reasonable, post-industrial evolution between working-class needs and market forces. It won't be bloody like the Russian Revolution.... #HowardFast #quotes https://openquotes.github.io/authors/howard-fast-quotes/#3f5d020d
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A critic is a eunuch working in a harem. He watches it, but he knows he can't do it. Critics very often are failed writers and, like failed priests, they hate religion.... #HowardFast #aphorisms https://openquotes.github.io/authors/howard-fast-quotes/#41d92abe
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