December 20, 2015: “Function in Form: Joseph McBride’s memoir The Broken Places as a Trauma Narrative” Review by Faith Harper, The Intimacy Dr. “One has to gaze upon the dead, cremate them and bury their ashes – then begin to tell their story. Remain silent about the dead, and they’ll never leave you in peace.”[…]
December 17, 2015: from Laura Truffaut to the author. Published by permission. I finished The Broken Places last week; the reading truly resonated with me. The second half especially is so vivid and fast-paced. I imagine that your original screenplay [which her father, François Truffaut, read] had necessarily much less backstory on your own character and[…]
November 24, 2015: “The Broken Places: Why Joseph McBride Can Be Thankful” Review by Beverly Gray, Beverly Gray in Movieland. On Thanksgiving weekend, I’m thankful for my friend and colleague Joseph McBride: journalist, screenwriter, and film historian. Joe wrote the original script for Rock ‘n’ Roll High School, as well as classic biographies of such[…]
November, 2015: “Review of The Broken Places: A Memoir by Joseph McBride” Reviewed by Kathleen Spaltro, Pearson Intranet Website. An acquaintance of mine, the distinguished biographer and film historian Joseph McBride, just published his memoirs. Besides dealing with emotional disability before, during, and after being institutionalized in a mental hospital in his adolescence, McBride has diagnosed himself[…]