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...Best American Short Stories, the celebrated, annually published volume of great short fiction is edited by a different person each year, giving each edition something of a unique personality and character. Past editors have included Barbara Kingsolver, E.L. Doctorow, and Garrison Keiller. This year, Walter Mosley, an established author of mysteries and short fiction, was given the honor. The New York City resident, who currently serves on the board of directors of the Poetry Society of America and National Book Awards, will be reading from this year’s short story compilation at the American Repertory Theater alongside authors...
...This World is a road movie?a Silk Road movie. It is also a strange hybrid of documentary and fiction. Torabi is an actual Afghan ?migr?; he and Enayatullah more or less play themselves on their westward adventure. Director Michael Winterbottom (Jude, Welcome to Sarajevo) went along for the ride, often improvising dialogue with people the boys met. At times the danger seems real: rifle fire at a Turkish border, captured on infrared film, comes perilously close to the two boys?and the crew. Did the film put the lads at risk? This is an expos? that occasionally smacks...
...have studiously avoided wandering under a showerhead since birth. Yet in photographs they never fail to appear devastatingly stylish, like a bunch of Bowery James Bonds. This poseurship is just one of the reasons it takes immense critical discipline not to hate them. The Strokes' effortlessness is pure fiction; not since the Velvet Underground met Andy Warhol has a band so effectively been art-directed to achieve the look of not having been art-directed. But when you actually hear the Strokes, that cultivated cool disperses with each passing guitar chord, and suddenly, just by listening, you're cool...
Starting tonight, the Brattle will launch the Boston Fantastic Film Festival, where science fiction and fantasy will share the screen with horror flicks and so-called ‘cult’ films...
While these kinds of festivals, which screen movies from genres such as science fiction, horror and fantasy, abound in Europe and in California, not one has been designated a spot on New England soil...