Word: novelizations
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...story begin. The story makes all kinds of preparations for its own arrival.”No one knows that truth better than Achebe. The Nigerian author, who currently teaches at Bard College, established himself as Nigeria’s literary ambassador to the Western world with his first novel, “Things Fall Apart,” published in 1959. This past Tuesday, Chinua Achebe came to Harvard to celebrate his novel’s fiftieth anniversary.The novel was one of the first major works to bring Western readers the experience of an African man under colonial rule...
...audible shiver as they first spy the teen vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), his impossibly gorgeous face caked in a mime's pallor, sitting in biology class next to young Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart). When he holds an apple in his hands to present to her - the novel's cover image - the girls emit an awestruck sigh, as if they'd just seen Zac Efron in the flesh or a puppy on YouTube. And when he tells Bella, "So the lion fell in love with the lamb," you hear applause, the imprimatur of Meyer's young connoisseurs. To judge from...
...Certainly it raises some eyebrows,” he said. “We know our limitations. We’re just interested in finding solutions whether they are tried and tested or novel ones...
...years later, when Silverman was in the midst of writing a novel, Sternberg gave him a call. Sternberg wanted to buy the Devil Rays, and he wanted Silverman on his management team...
When Sternberg called, Silverman had written nearly 60,000 words of his book. But even the novel, a story of a father-son relationship strained by addiction, had ended up revolving around baseball. The sport was Silverman’s inescapable passion, and so he accepted Sternberg’s offer...