Word: fictionalizes
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Music. Flight. Racism. The tales in Ralph Ellison's posthumous collection of short fiction, Flying Home and Other Stories (173 pages; Random House; $23) deal with a variety of issues, but certain concerns pop up repeatedly, variations on compelling melodies. Characters in different stories burst into song; birds and airplanes are seen as metaphors for freedom; and white racism is a fanged, fearsome threat...
...flower, a cartoon bunny--sends out a different frequency when it shows up on a banged-up city block. Although it sometimes appears in the suburbs, street art is mostly a city format, borrowing its images from the primordial ooze of video games, advertising, science fiction, skateboard decals, porn and politics. Masked gunmen, spacemen and George W. Bush are all major motifs...
...kitchen. It’s these sorts of touches that endow the film with genuine Southern charisma and display Crowe’s penchant for detail. “Elizabethtown” signifies a return to more familiar territory for Crowe, whose last film, the 2001 science-fiction adaptation “Vanilla Sky,” was a dramatic departure in material and style: Crowe is an autonomous craftsman who has both written and directed most of his oeuvre, all of which—besides “Sky”—can be classified as romance...
...since the release of the film American Splendor, based on his comix series. As anyone who watched that splendid movie knows, Pekar led a fairly unremarkable life as a Cleveland file clerk until he decided to turn that very mundaneness into comic art. Hiring others to illustrate his non-fiction vignettes of such quotidian occurrences as starting a car in the winter or talking with co-workers, Pekar's stories were driven by his intensely cranky, neurotic, highly-intelligent and, above all, hilarious personality. But the one thing Pekar never explored, until now, was how he got that...
...you’re the last person who hasn’t read the Lord of the Rings trilogy, you can buy the set at this science-fiction bookstore for $3.50. Or if newer fiction is what you’re looking for, Pandemonium offers such choice picks as Carpe Demon: Adventures of a Demon-Hunting Soccer...