Word: novelness
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...album that lacks any semblance of cohesion, where the styles fight furiously against each other to dominate. At the other end, the collaboration can result in an album greater than the sum of its two parts, where the combined styles complement each other so that an entirely novel sound emerges, one that neither musician could have produced alone. It is towards the latter end of this spectrum that we find Broken Bells, the new collaboration between James Mercer, lead singer of The Shins, and producer/musician Brian Burton a.k.a. Danger Mouse. The folk guitar strumming and soaring voice of Mercer fits...
...Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Middlesex” and “The Virgin Suicides”—of the cigarette smoke that veiled the audience and room at an event at The Harvard Advocate last Tuesday. After reading a passage from the novel that he is working on, Eugenides—a creative writing professor at Princeton and alum of Brown—answered questions from a crowd that spilled into the kitchen and onto the stairs. Eugenides mainly fielded questions about his writing process—revealing the difficulties, pleasures, and surprises that...
...though Eugenides is an extremely meticulous writer, he recalled how good fortune prodded him into writing “Middlesex”—a novel brimming with themes of fate and destiny. “I was at the artistic colony Yaddo, trying to write the opening with the burning of Smyrna in 1922 without having done my research. But it just sounded so false. I was desperate; I thought I had to give [“Middlesex”] up, so I wandered downstairs where there was a stack of books left for anyone?...
...there are specific reasons Pride and Prejudice and Zombies worked that don't necessarily pertain to the knockoffs. It wasn't an arbitrary mashup. Austen's novel is about the comedy and pathos of people whose lives are shaped by monstrous realities that they're too polite to talk about, namely money and sex. Zombies are just another unspeakable thing to tiptoe around. There's a certain dream logic to it, but it doesn't follow that the trick will work twice...
Still, victims are keeping their expectations low: the ultrasecretive order that Maciel built, like some shadowy fraternity from a Dan Brown novel, may be simply too powerful to cudgel. Established in 22 countries, it operates nine universities, 125 religious houses and more than 160 schools. In the U.S. alone it runs 21 élite Catholic prep schools, a university in Sacramento, Calif., and some of the only seminaries for teenage boys in the U.S. at a time when the American priesthood's ranks are thinning exponentially. In Mexico, the children of telecom billionaire Carlos Slim, one of the world...