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Though nothing recently has resembed the early 20th century lynching riots connected with the debut of The Birth of a Nation, the HFA has had its own dealings with angry viewers reacting to the controversial film...
Miller can thank the collaborative efforts of Rivers and the OFA for his long overdue Boston debut. Rivers, co-coordinator of HFAI and a longtime fan of Miller’s, saw Rebirth at Lincoln Center in New York City this past summer. “[A]s soon as Rebirth was over, I knew I wanted him to come and do it at Harvard,” Rivers writes in an email, and she subsequently approached and received support from the OFA to bring Miller to campus...
...however, remarkable in other ways. Right now Foer is the LeBron James of the literary world--young, preternaturally mature, enviably well compensated (he got a seven-figure advance for his last novel), and coming off a wildly successful rookie season. In 2002 his debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated, put him in the first rank of interesting young fiction writers. The movie version, starring Elijah Wood, is due out in August...
...joints in all the towns in all the world, Susan Barker had to choose Tsunami Bar as the title of her debut novel. Her manuscript was the talk of the 2003 Frankfurt Book Fair, and her publisher, Doubleday, had high hopes for it. But after the Dec. 26 tsunami devastated large parts of Asia, Doubleday felt compelled to select a new name, delay publication for a month, and go through the manuscript, changing scores of references to the eponymous Osaka hostess lounge where much of the action takes place. Despite that setback, the book has finally appeared, and it proves...
...cough up the dough to catch Interpol at the Orpheum next week, as they’re one of the few bands in the post-Strokes wave that have made a name for especially killer live performances. Say what you will about 2004’s Antics, but their debut album, Turn On The Bright Lights, was a almost undisputed classic, channeling the gloomy 80s through a cultivated veneer of sneering guitar and downcast vocals, and oh that sound! On both albums, Interpol draws strength from this signature sound of repetitively churning guitar lines evoke smoky roads, heartbreak...