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Baise-moi is the most extreme film of the bunch. Co-directed by the novelist Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi, who has worked in the French porn industry, it employs real hard-core scenes, many of them brutal, to illustrate its story of two gals on the run. Manu (Raffaela Anderson) is a porn star, Nadine (Karen Bach) a hooker with a short fuse. Each woman kills a man, and the two go on a shooting and screwing spree across the arid French landscape. Yet for all its graphic excesses, or because of them, Baise-moi is a serious...
...prize-winning novelist, poet and critic delivered a speech entitled, “How I Became A Writer” as part of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Dean’s Lecture Series...
...pierced plastic packs of liquefied sarin gas with their umbrella tips, leaving 12 people dead and thousands injured. Only two months before, more than 5,000 people were killed by an earthquake that shook the western port city of Kobe. "Some strange malaise, some bitter aftertaste lingers on," writes novelist Haruki Murakami in his account of the times, Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche. "We crane our necks and look around us, as if to ask: where did all that come from...
...that easy, if legendary spy novelist John Le Carre is to be believed. "The stylized television footage and photographs of bin Laden suggest a man of homoerotic narcissism, and maybe we can draw a grain of hope from that," Le Carre writes. "Posing with a Kalashnikov, attending a wedding or reading from a sacred text, he radiates with every self-adoring geture an actor's awareness of the lens... greater than all of (his liabilities in evading his pursuers), to my jaded eye, is his barely containable male vanity, his appetite for self-drama and his closet passion...
...Crimson published interviews last week with two students writing creative theses in the English department —a poet and a playwright. This week The Crimson talked to a novelist and an author of short stories. Made up of prose and broken into chapters, these students’ theses look more like their non-creative counterparts. But because their works will be personal creations they are more similar to poems and plays...