“Where, more importantly, is the story? David simply is. He does nothing, desires nothing. He exists, if that, and nothing more.” Shalom Auslander judges the prestigious Three Under Three prize.
“Pointless and trivial.”
Kickstarter Trumps the NEA
Kickstarter is expecting to raise more than $150 million for its users' projects in 2012. That's $4 million more than the "entire fiscal year 2012 budget for the National Endowment of the Arts." Maybe it's because the NEA is wasting all of its money on that $1.3 billion poem...
Third Way
You may have heard that E.L. Doctorow passed away last week. The Ragtime and Billy Bathgate author was known for his mastery of historical fiction. At The Guardian, Michael Chabon offers a tribute, arguing that Doctorow found a way out of the binary trap between postmodernism and realism.
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Jane Eyre, Again
Coming in March: Yet another screen adaption of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, directed by Cary Fukunaga. This one stars Mia Wasikowska as Jane and Michael Fassbender as Mr. Rochester. The trailer is here.
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