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Florean Fortescue’s ice cream might seem old-hat compared to Ben & Jerry’s latest lactic stylings. But, for thousands of aspiring wizards, its appearance in Harvard Square tonight will be—well, a novel experience...
Much of the Class of 2008 was only 12 when J.K. Rowling’s first novel, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” was published in the U.S., the beginning of a seven-book sensation that has made Rowling richer than the Queen of England and turned thousands of readers, like Gong, into Potter fanatics...
Consider yourself warned. Giambattista Bodoni, the unfortunate mouthpiece through which Eco delivers his latest novel, “The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana,” will spare you little effort...
...Ranch. It's packed with 50 artists on flat-screen computers working on A Scanner Darkly. They're using the same rotoscope process used in Waking Life to turn tape of Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jr. and Woody Harrelson into cartoons for Linklater's adaptation of the novel by Philip K. Dick, whose stories have been turned into Blade Runner, Total Recall and Minority Report. Linklater has managed to make A Scanner Darkly as a $3 million indie, getting the actors to work for scale, Dick's daughters to give up the book's rights cheap and, from...
DIED. CLAUDE SIMON, 91, leading figure in France's "nouveau roman," or new novel, literary movement; author of such acclaimed, stylistically challenging novels as La Route Des Flandres (The Flanders Road) in 1960; and winner of the 1985 Nobel Prize for literature; in Paris...