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...Christmas, he has another one-man dystopia drama. It's I Am Legend, directed by Francis Lawrence, the Viennese director of music videos who made his feature debut with a good science-fiction film, Constantine, and written by Akiva Goldsman, based on Mark Protosevich's script for a 1999 I Am Legend project that was to be directed by Ridley Scott and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. As in I, Robot, Smith has seen the future - and it sucks...
...only person not killed or infected by a plague, fends for himself, searches desperately for other survivors and hunts down the bands of infected mutants who come out at night looking for people like him - if there are any people like him left. Both novels take a science-fiction premise and ask: What practical skills, what inner resources, can a man bring to battling life-ending odds? The Shrinking Man and I Am Legend are how-to books about coping with the unthinkable...
...refugee voids by both of them and the inspirational working out of one of those deep family secrets that were the great specialty of Charles Dickens and, for that matter, of American movies in their classic age, when they so often made first-rate entertainments of second-rate popular fiction...
...Stonewall Inn sparked the gay-rights movement, Canadian writer Jane Rule published a novel with a radical premise. A female professor goes to Nevada to get a divorce, falls in love with a woman, and the two live happily ever after. Desert of the Heart, a landmark in gay fiction, inspired the 1985 film Desert Hearts, the first major feature to favorably depict a lesbian relationship. Rule...
...serenade you on the piano, make a short film about Beanie Babies, and write you a sonnet—all in a day’s work. As the publisher of the Harvard Advocate, Morgan is largely responsible for producing the literary magazine. “Being on the fiction board really gave me the opportunity to not be given books that had been handed down through the canon, but short stories written by students that might be terrible and might be wonderful,” says Morgan. “I’m much more in touch with...