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...Vineyard is launching its first annual Jaws Fest to lure movie buffs to the Massachusetts resort island where the shark tale was filmed. The three-day event in early June will mark the 30th anniversary of Steven Spielberg's first blockbuster with an outdoor screening and appearances by Jaws novelist Peter Benchley and co-screenwriter Carl Gottlieb, along with displays of movie props and behind-the-scenes photographs. (Universal Studios' commemorative DVD set won't be available until later that month.) The reunion won't be complete, as actors Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss have not yet agreed to come...
Known for her literary versatility and her politicized poetry, Maxine W. Kumin ’46 will receive the 11th annual Harvard Arts Medal from the Office of the Arts (OFA) during May’s Arts First festival to honor her distinguished career as a poet, novelist, and essayist...
...children barely survive in order to write about them with inspired resentment. Loving memoirs tend to rank second only to corporate histories of tool-and-die companies as the kind of book any reader can put down. In the face of this, Wilfrid Sheed, a witty, acerbic critic and novelist (Office Politics, Transatlantic Blues), has managed to compose a mellow family chronicle that turns literary and psychological tradition on its head. This is more than a memoir; it is an occasion...
...novelist John le Carré says that he will never write again about George Smiley. Le Carré cannot think of Smiley anymore without seeing Alec Guinness. The actor stole the author's creation, hijacked it into flesh. One remembers that some primitive peoples feared being photographed because they thought the camera would make off with their souls. Mention George Smiley to anyone who knows Le Carré's spy novels and his memory will instantly throw onto its screen the image of Alec Guinness. Smiley will not be fat and smudgy looking, as the novelist imagined him. He will be simply, immutably...
These artistic enactments are forms of mythmaking. They rearrange experience to endow it with drama and significance. The novelist John Gardner once wrote a version of Beowulf from the monster Grendel's point of view. In Gardner's telling, a blind harper appears at King Hrothgar's hall and sings, transforming Hrothgar's bloody, sordid career into "ringing phrases, magnificent, golden, and all of them, incredibly, lies. The man had changed the world, had torn up the past by its thick, gnarled roots and had transmuted it, and they who knew the truth, remembered...