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...Perfect Fifths” renders an interesting balance between intimacy and distance of characterization. It is primarily third person, a departure from the first-person letters and diary entries that were the rest of the series. Throughout the novel, McCafferty branches into more unconventional forms. One chapter is written in haikus that alternates between the perspectives of Jessica and Marcus. Another section is entirely rapid-fire dialogue. These sections punch up the emotional power of the prose.They also contrast with the distancing effect of the rest of the book, a trade-off to access both main characters’ interiors...
Things rarely come in groups of six. Sextuplets (by birth or in a boy band) are uncommon and overwhelming, while musical arrangements are more likely to be written for a quartet or a quintet. Because of this, if the word sestet rings a bell, it is likely that the cognizance dates back to your high school unit on poetry. The sestet is commonly known as the last 6 lines of a sonnet, usually demarcating a turn in thought. And though a sestet can be any six-lined stanza or poem, with “Sestets,” the latest...
It’s the senior thesis that people will actually see, even if for the first time at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. “Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench,” written and directed by Damien S. Chazelle ’07-’08, is his first feature-length film. Chazelle originally conceived the movie on a considerably smaller scale but expanded the project after receiving an Artist Development Fellowship (ADF) in 2007. “Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench” was primarily shot...
...long days without parents or school to live wildly, fall in love, and find one’s true self. June, July, August: enough time to take a walk on the wild side, turn around, and walk back.In “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh,” written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber (“Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story”) and loosely based on Michael Chabon’s debut 1988 novel of the same name, this mythic summer is distilled into 80 minutes of saccharine images and angsty declamations. Coming of age in Thurber?...
...physicians ghostwriting pharmaceutical studies—another contentious ethical issue—Stossel is not nearly so far from the medical mainstream, saying that honorary authorship, in which doctors simply sign their name to a document written by industry employees, is wrong...