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Separating fact from fiction can be a difficult balancing act, but playwright Anne Washburn has impressively smudged that division, leaving an image of the fantastical nature of evil in its wake. Based on the trial of former Romanian dictators Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu and held together by a thick mixture of absurdity and Eastern European accents, the American Repertory Theatre’s world premiere of “The Communist Dracula Pageant” creates an image of madness that is both entertainingly and shockingly outlandish.The players will perform this unbelievable truth through Nov. 9. The audience is told...
...life of a Hollywood producer is full of bizarre encounters with belligerent actors, eccentric directors, and hard-nosed executives, which makes for some odd-ball stories. Such stranger-than-fiction tales delighted readers in producer Art Linson’s 2002 memoir “What Just Happened?: Bitter Hollywood Tales From the Front Line.” Linson’s memoir serves as the backbone for director Barry Levinson’s movie “What Just Happened?” yet the stories fall short of entertaining once translated to the screen. “What...
...Nothing new here at all, though many readers will see themselves in the book - everyday Joes who win, lose, fight with their parents, and eventually discover their own paths towards happiness. In that, at least, Grogan can take satisfaction in having given the type of insight typically left to fiction writers with far more imaginative tastes...
...Cotterill spent about four years in Laos (he now lives in Thailand). Although he quickly grew to love its unhurried rhythms and the unfailing good humor of its people, he didn't set out to write about it. Instead, his first stab at fiction produced a dense, depressing investigation of child sex-trafficking in Asia, an issue Cotterill has also delved into as an NGO worker. That novel sold "about two copies," Cotterill says. He realized a lighter touch might prove more palatable to readers...
...Roth and Updike are separated by exactly a year and a day.) Together these three are the ranking triumvirate of a literary generation that is way too all over the place to have a collective name--they ain't modernists, they ain't postmodernists--but that dominated American fiction for the second half of the 20th century. This year all three have arrived at an extraordinary moment of reflection...