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...leave it to a true VG scholar like my colleague Lev Grossman to flesh out my theory that it's graphic novels, not video games, that have proved the more reliable source for good movies. Maybe it's that the adult comix provide stories, and storyboards, while the video games supply only a premise; or that reading an illustrated novel is closer to the movie-watching experience than the Zen numbness that overcomes gamesmen in their 27th hour at the console. That kind of sensory exhaustion is what the viewer feels before Max Payne has lumbered to its conclusion...
...world went dark and the entire population was left helpless, except for the small hope of an underground city: Ember City. This is the premise of director Gil Kenan’s new film “City of Ember,” based on the young-adult novel of the same name by Jeanne DuPrau. A portion of Earth’s population moves to Ember, a glittering metropolis, “for the good of all mankind”—or so say The Builders, the team that masterminded the city. Although the film disappoints...
Carole F. Withrow, the program coordinator of Cambridge READS, said that Alvarez’s novel was chosen for the event because of its broad appeal among different age and racial groups...
...added that the novel, which speaks to the experience of immigration and assimilation, was especially pertinent given the “rich multicultural population” of Cambridge...
Today, Alvarez will speak to the students at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, where her novel was on the summer reading list...