Word: readerã
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...most seemingly banal details of an ostensibly unremarkable life with a unique glow. Of course, all of the advantages of the written medium are lost when a book is converted into a film. To be sure, the motion picture medium can do many things that a book cannot. The reader??s direct access to the characters’ psychologies is replaced with the filmgoer’s ability to view the characters in all of their dynamic physical detail...
...actual experience of a book or poetry reading enhances the reader??s experience of a written work, and involves celebrity, food and literature. What’s not to love...
References to Jonathan Franzen’s “eagerly anticipated third novel” have been appearing in print for months; advance reader??s copies of The Corrections came with a letter from its highly respected editor and publisher, Jonathan Galassi, who called it “one of the very best [books] we’ve published in my fifteen years at FSG [Farrar, Straus & Giroux],” praise not to be taken lightly; the New York Times ran feature articles in both its magazine and book review; and the excitement led Time magazine...
...response to Susan Brunka’s passionate disapproval of The Crimson's reprint of a 1962 article besmirching Radcliffe women (Letters, “A Reader??s Reply,” May 23; Opinion, “A Grader’s Reply,” May 16), I would hope Brunka and other readers of like mind would consider these documents historical...
...narratives often lack the complexity and nuance that exist in the world we know. For Asnes, the current conflict can be summed up in two straightforward identities: Israelis = biblical Egyptians = bad, while Palestinians = biblical Israelites = good. This sort of rhetoric is offensive both to reality and to the reader??s intelligence...