Khaled Hosseini, the author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, has come out with a quarterly newsletter that features articles on his foundation, The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a Readers Section that highlights feedback from Hosseini’s readers, and Khaled’s Corner. The March newsletter focuses on the question that Khaled is asked most...
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In October 2009, the beloved classic Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak is coming to a theater near you. Director Spike Jonze (better known for music videos and the infamous Jackass movies) also co-wrote the screenplay for the movie. At the heart of the movie is new actor Max Records. I love...
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The movie should never have been made. Oftentimes, in literature, the mode of the store is instrumental to the telling of the story. For example, in the book Atonement by Ian McEwan, the book itself is the apology for which the narrator is trying to convey to her sister and her lover. In Blindness...
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“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.” ~ Leo Tolstoy ~ Russions Writer
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A Great and Terrible Beauty will be coming to a theater near you in the year 2010. There isn’t a cast yet; but the director and writer of the screenplay is Charles Sturridge. Who is Charles Sturridge? Good question. Many of his works are lesser known; for example, Shackleton, Lassie, Where Angels Fear to...
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