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Why Hollywood is turning to books for its biggest productions – The obvious answer to this question is money, but the specific justifications are a good reminder that the commercial aspects of commercial art do not necessarily favor novelty and innovation. Here studios can “manage risk” by adapting already popular material, ... more >
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“we will need writers who can remember freedom”: ursula k le guin at the national book awards – A transcription of Ursula Le Guin’s speech at the National Book Awards ceremony Wednesday night. Le Guin’s comments have been getting a lot of attention, in part because of her assault on ... more >
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Writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Who Gave Voice To Latin America, Dies – Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, and innovator of the style known as magical realism, is dead at 87. Garcia ... more >