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...decent thumbnail sketch of the past decade, sure--but also, as I was repeatedly flabbergasted to discover while researching my new novel, which takes place from 1848 to 1850, a perfectly accurate reckoning of the late 1840s as well. And while it's an excellent parlor game to point out the resonant particulars--history really does rhyme, if not repeat itself--I've also become sincerely convinced that that mid--19th century moment is, more than any other, when modern American life really began. The future--that is, our present--came into sight. The way we live...
Zack Snyder’s adaptation of Frank Miller’s graphic novel “300” had thousands, including myself, chomping at the bit for the film’s release. As a fan of Miller’s “Sin City,” I entered the theater with lofty expectations for high-caliber action and visceral visuals. It is my sad duty to report that what could have been an achievement of epic proportions winds up as a Greek tragedy. Loosely based on the historical battle of Thermopylae, “300?...
...kind of joke that movie nerds like to make up in their spare time. Yet somehow, such a meeting happened not once, but many times over several months.Though lighthearted at times, the result of those meetings—a film adaptation of Frank Miller’s graphic novel “300”—can hardly be considered a joke. Amidst scenes of elephants stomping through crowds and bare-chested men throwing each other off cliffs, the movie, a reimagination of the fifth-century B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, also attempts to address issues of duty, reason...
...road from a Harvard creative writing class to a debut novel may seem formidable, but not for Bridget J. “Bridie” Clark ’99. After spending years working behind the scenes as an editor, last month she put her own title on the shelves. [CORRECTION APPENDED...
Clark’s novel, “Because She Can,” is loosely based on her own experiences in the surprisingly colorful publishing industry...