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...author of “All The Sad Young Literary Men,” is a novelist, the sentiments he conveys through his characters are indeed tied to his own feelings about his Harvard experience. In his 2008 novel, one of the things Gessen hoped to convey in a protagonist??s flashbacks to his days at Harvard was the letdown Gessen experienced when he realized the college of his dreams was not what he had imagined...
...work with her editor and old friend, Rebecca Shapiro, and by its publication in 2008, the story had been transformed. “It was very, very different,” she says. One of the main characters in “Love Marriage,” the protagonist??s uncle, didn’t even appear in her thesis. “I thought her thesis was wonderful and then I thought her book was wonderful,” Kincaid says, “but she grew as a writer and what she did in the book...
...double-dealing. But although the plot twists are almost as absorbing as those found in “Bourne,” “Duplicity” has none of its novelty or conviction. While “Bourne” carefully develops layer upon layer of the protagonist??s character, “Duplicity” banks on the overdone spy archetype and a few flimsy love scenes to validate its guileful plot. The audience is supposed to assume that as spies, Claire and Ray jet glamorously around the world wearing stilettos and aviators but suffer...
...wait. In the words of lead singer Fran Healy, “Ode to J. Smith” is fashioned as a “dark fairy tale.” Wholeheartedly embracing a paradoxically deeply humanistic and pessimistic ethos, the record narrates the day of its eponymous protagonist??s failed suicide attempt. Each track represents a different moment in J. Smith’s day. Travis eschews chronological order and groups the tracks instead for tonal coherence (though the first and final songs, “Chinese Blues” and “Before You Were...
...them. But the movie deals with his sentiment in such a tedious way that it fails to say anything new. These days, the celebrities-are-fake angle isn’t exactly revolutionary. Furthermore, the film’s attempts to add sophistication to this observation by intellectualizing its protagonist??Sidney’s dad surfaces midway through to offhandedly reveal that his son has a philosophy degree—come off as pathetic and clumsy as Sidney’s attempts to pick up women. Weide, the Emmy-winning producer and director of HBO?...