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Sydney Morning Herald
12 hours ago
- Sydney Morning Herald
How men can reject Trump's crude masculinity and rediscover their richer selves
It was one of the most erotic things I ever heard. A man I know said he was reading all the novels of Jane Austen in one summer. At first, I figured he was pretending to like things that women like to seem simpatico, a feminist hustle. But no, this guy really wanted to read Northanger Abbey. Men are reading less. Women make up 80 per cent of fiction sales. 'Young men have regressed educationally, emotionally and culturally,' David J. Morris wrote in a New York Times essay titled 'The Disappearance of Literary Men Should Worry Everyone.' The fiction gap makes me sad. A man staring into a phone is not sexy. But a man with a book has become so rare, such an object of fantasy, that there's a popular Instagram account called 'Hot Dudes Reading.' Some of the most charming encounters I've had with men were about books. Mike Nichols once turned to me at a dinner in Los Angeles and told me his favourite novel was Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth. I was startled because I have read that book over and over, finding it a great portrait of a phenomenon that is common in politics. Someone makes a wrong move and is unable to recover, slipping into a shame spiral. (This does not apply to Donald Trump.) I went to interview Tom Stoppard in Dorset a few years ago. The playwright has no computer and is not on social media. He writes with a Caran d'Ache fountain pen with a six-sided barrel. Stoppard had a romantic-looking bookcase full of first editions of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens. He complained that his book collection was regularly raided by 'American burglars.'
The Age
12 hours ago
- The Age
How men can reject Trump's crude masculinity and rediscover their richer selves
It was one of the most erotic things I ever heard. A man I know said he was reading all the novels of Jane Austen in one summer. At first, I figured he was pretending to like things that women like to seem simpatico, a feminist hustle. But no, this guy really wanted to read Northanger Abbey. Men are reading less. Women make up 80 per cent of fiction sales. 'Young men have regressed educationally, emotionally and culturally,' David J. Morris wrote in a New York Times essay titled 'The Disappearance of Literary Men Should Worry Everyone.' The fiction gap makes me sad. A man staring into a phone is not sexy. But a man with a book has become so rare, such an object of fantasy, that there's a popular Instagram account called 'Hot Dudes Reading.' Some of the most charming encounters I've had with men were about books. Mike Nichols once turned to me at a dinner in Los Angeles and told me his favourite novel was Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth. I was startled because I have read that book over and over, finding it a great portrait of a phenomenon that is common in politics. Someone makes a wrong move and is unable to recover, slipping into a shame spiral. (This does not apply to Donald Trump.) I went to interview Tom Stoppard in Dorset a few years ago. The playwright has no computer and is not on social media. He writes with a Caran d'Ache fountain pen with a six-sided barrel. Stoppard had a romantic-looking bookcase full of first editions of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens. He complained that his book collection was regularly raided by 'American burglars.'
Perth Now
19 hours ago
- Perth Now
Taron Egerton scared of 'jinxing' dream project
Taron Egerton doesn't want to "jinx" his dream project. The 35-year-old actor dreams of turning one of his favourite musicals into a film - but Taron doesn't want to jinx the project before he gets a green light. The Hollywood star told People: "There's a musical I love. "I daren't tell you what it is, because I don't want to jinx it. There's a really classic American musical that I really love that I would love to turn into a film. It's never been turned into a film and I think it would be amazing." Despite this, Taron admits that he'll have to overcome a series of obstacles before he can get the project off the ground. He said: "I'm really, really, really hoping that I can achieve that. It's very, very hard and the estate is super protective about it and rightly so. "If I manage it, you'll know about it and I think it would be incredible. But I will not jinx it by telling you what it is because I've been trying for some time." Meanwhile, Taron has played down talk that he could replace Daniel Craig as James Bond, insisting he's too "messy" for the role. The movie star believes there are "so many cool, younger actors" who would be better suited to the coveted role. Asked about the possibility of playing Bond, he told Collider: "I don't think I'm a good choice for it. I think I'm too messy for that. "I think I'm not — I really love James Bond and particularly Daniel Craig's tenure. But I think I wouldn't be good at it, and I think there's so many cool, younger actors who would be great for it. I think it would be wasted on me, probably." Taron also observed that leading the Bond franchise is "quite an undertaking". He said: "That's not to say that I don't have aspirations and plans and also that I wouldn't be interested in doing something that's more commercial, because of course I would. I think I'm a period in my life where, as you say, I've been probably following the things that speak to me on a creative level a little bit more, but, you know, I'm sure I won't feel that way forever. "But James Bond is quite an undertaking and I think, one, as far as I'm aware, nobody's asking me to do it."
