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...stories featured in the collection were chosen and edited by Pulitzer prizing winning author E. Annie Proulx (The Shipping News, Accordion Crimes). Proulx offers a good variety of style and content--everything from T. Coraghessan Boyle's strikingly titled exploration of the abortion rights conflict "Killing Babies" to Robert Stone's "Under the Pintons" a Hemingway-esque man-and-the-elements tale. Proulx has selected precisely crafted works that stand on their own--making her surprising attempt to unify them in four "chapter" titles ("Manners and Right Behavior," "Identifying the Stranger," "Perceived Social Values," and "Rites of Passage") somewhat unnecessary...
Along with stories by well known authors like Wolff, Stone and Cynthia Ozick, are the works of emerging talents like newly minted literary wunderkind Junot Diaz. "Fiesta, 1980"--which is also included in Diaz's critically lauded 1996 debut "Drown"--details a Dominican American boy's encounters with his father's Puerto Rican mistress and his experience at a lively family party. Here Diaz once again proves that he is one of the best young writers around not for what Proulx calls his distinct "cultural, ethnic, and class" perspective, but because underneath his deceptively simple, "street vernacular" prose...
Comic books don't usually get a lot of attention from the mainstream media. But when Oliver Stone, high-grossing film-maker and conspiracy theorist extraordinary, decides to option the movie rights to a moderately popular black-and-white independent comic book, all eyes are suddenly drawn in its direction...
...cartoonist Rob Schrab, is one of the latest comics to emerge from the comics underground into the glare of Hollywood's scrutiny. Creator Schrab attributes Scud's success to what he calls its multimedia appeal and its "surrealistically" funky style--both of which were probably factors in drawing Stone's attention in the first place...
Leblanc said the Forum has brought other notables this year to speak including filmmaker Oliver Stone, former U.S. Representative Robert K. Dornan (R-Calif.), and Greta van Susteren, co-host of a CNN show...