Matt Rees's Blog – June 2011 Archive (2)

Sexy classical music and crime novels

When Peter Cook admitted to Dudley Moore that he was “turned on by dead Popes,” it was a satire on those among us who’re so bored by their lives as to be infinitely suggestible. Thus a dead pope lying on a catafalque in white robes looks “at peace, at rest, and ****ing fanciable.”

The joke, of course, is that no one could imagine the Pope as a sexual object, whether alive…

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Added by Matt Rees on June 3, 2011 at 9:09pm — No Comments

New Crime Fiction Podcast: Arab Spring Short Story in Syria

I'm launching my new Podcast called The Man of Twists and Turns today. It'll include interviews with writers and discussions of my own creative process for my books about Palestinian detective Omar Yussef, Mozart and Caravaggio. It’s a podcast about writing for writers and for readers who love good writing. In this first podcast I read my new Omar Yussef short story set in… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on June 2, 2011 at 9:30pm — 1 Comment