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...shock tactics don't grab viewers, star power often will. That's the thinking that drives the competition between the BBC and other broadcasters to sign and retain big-name talent. A recent hit for the BBC, a science-fiction-infused detective series called Life on Mars, made for the BBC by the independent production company Kudos Film & Television, won over viewers with its originality and an unstarry cast. It's an exception in an era when schedules at the BBC and at commercial broadcasters buckle under the weight of leaden fare built to showcase stars or to reprise themes...
...over the world, without any direct connection, have appropriated its name. (The Freemasons reportedly have an "Order of the Knights of Templar," thus consummating a kind of conspiracy theorist's dream marriage.) Such homages should not obscure the fact that however much power they enjoy in the realm of fiction and fantasy, it almost certainly does not equal that which they once actually possessed - and then abruptly lost...
...King, the editor of “The Best American Short Stories 2007,” was joined at the Harvard Book Store event by Heidi Pitlor, the series editor, and contributing authors Jim Shepard, Karen Russell, and Richard Russo to discuss the state of short fiction. NO MORE ‘ASS IN THE AIR’ King said his decision to edit the collection was driven by a desire to reconnect with short fiction, to read as many stories as possible, and to garner inspiration to write new works of his own. Also important, as he said...
...think that most of fiction is autobiographical,” Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk reflected before a packed Memorial Church audience last Friday night, exactly one year to the date of his winning the Nobel Prize in Literature. “The art of the novel is that in writing, you’re talking about yourself while making people believe you’re talking about herself, himself.” During the Harvard Book Store event, Pamuk used excerpts from “Other Colors,” a new collection of “essays...
...said Stern, “but I pursued one version that made sense to me. I’m sure there are 20 others.” In Stern’s telling, the play focuses more on the human parts of the story than its science fiction aspects. Confused teen Donnie Darko sits on the brink of two realities, and he has to make an important choice. Helping him make the right one is “bunny-man” Frank. Stern’s interpretation follows a different thread from the common perception of the story?...