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...same. Ponders has-been Australian artist Michael Boone: "How can you know how much to pay when you have no bloody idea of what it's worth?" As Boone hails from Bacchus Marsh, Carey's birthplace, and finds himself at art's '80s epicenter in Manhattan, where the novelist has lived for nearly two decades, the question of creative worth would seem to resonate strongly with the Booker Prize winner...
...author of “Wicked,” discussed his career since writing the best-selling novel at a dinner discussion in Lowell House Junior Common Room last night. The event was organized by Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters (BGLTS) tutors in the House. Maguire, a gay novelist, has written a number of revisionist retellings of children’s stories. “Wicked” is a take on the L. Frank Baum classic “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” Some of the initial reviews of “Wicked...
...Debilles spoke to a motley collection of participants ranging from undergraduates to a resident tutor to a journalist. An undergraduate at the New School, Ensa C. Cosby, whose father is the actor, Bill Cosby, traveled from New York to attend the workshop. Cosby, who said she is an aspiring novelist, called Black a “family friend” and a mentor. “He’s been very generous with information, with helping students get their foot in the door,” she said. Another participant, Siena T. Konscol ’08, said that...
...Gibsonian film metaphor--Stations of the Cross will be familiar to anyone who has ever sold a literary property to Hollywood. The stories are legion, and they've happened to writers way more eminent than me. The Wall Street Journal also reported that the late western novelist Louis L'Amour wrote more than 100 books and that nearly 50 of them--50!--were sold to the movies. One novel that got the treatment was published under the title The Broken Gun. By the time it came out as a movie, it was called Cancel My Reservation and starred Bob Hope...
...director of the French Institute on International Relations, "rejecting any prospect of more risk." Fear of losing jobs in a country that is poor at creating new ones may be the cause of the moment. But French ambivalence about a changing world is nothing new. In the 1950s, French novelist Pierre Daninos suggested it was part of the national psyche to battle gallantly - if often fruitlessly - against invasion, as national treasures such as Joan of Arc once did. By that measure, the French in the streets last week were fighting to hold back the inexorable challenge of international competition...