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...scenes, John Cusack’s (“High Fidelity”) bitter wit, and Oliver Platt’s (TV’s “The West Wing”) slapstick drollery, nothing can save the hackneyed storyline of this too-dark comedy. Based on the novel by Scott Phillips and adapted for the screen by Richard Russo (“Twilight”) and Robert Benton (“Superman”), “The Ice Harvest” reminds viewers of a darker “Grosse Pointe Blank.” Every...
...started turning it over, and really tried to understand what she was talking about. I pulled out the short story-I tend to keep everything-and the three pages became a 50-page short story. [It then became his senior honors thesis at Harvard, then grew into a novel...
Hilary De Vries, whose last book was about publicists, has a new novel called The Gift Bag Chronicles. ?It's kind of sad. It's greed on display,? says De Vries. And the virus, she says, has spread beyond celebrities. ?There are tons of reporters who won't go to events if the bag isn't up to snuff. If they show up, the publicist can say this media outlet was here. And they can hand that list to the corporate client.? I have finally found a class I can teach at journalism school...
...Family in Corduroy and Denim] or a dinosaur on [Michael Crichton's] Jurassic Park, it has to have a visceral appeal and in its own way be appropriate to the title. There are many factors?chiefly, whether it's a good book. I designed the cover for my own novel [The Cheese Monkeys; 2001], and it didn't become a huge best seller. If I can't do it for myself, I can't do it for someone else...
WHAT DID WRITING A NOVEL SATISFY CREATIVELY THAT DESIGNING DOES NOT? My experience in design school was intense, and I wanted to try to capture that while at the same time making a book in which you actually learn something. So the satisfaction came from hopefully turning the graphic-design process into a compelling narrative. I'm now working on my second novel, which is kind of a continuation. In school you are taught how to solve design problems; the next book is about applying that in the workplace. You've learned all these lofty ideals, but then...