So what has become the preeminent vehicle for a motion picture: the television mini-series; or full feature-length movie that opens in theaters? I vote for the mini-series. [Read more…]
Archives for February 2018
Life – It Spares No One
Author of She Read to Us in The Late Afternoons: A Life in Novels
Lucy Gayheart was the first novel I read by Willa Cather. One day in our school library I reached down from the shelf a book with Lucy’s name on the spine. I was twelve years old then and looking for stories about girls in the hope of finding out what would happen to me. [Read more…]
Is Imitation a Sincere Form of Plagiarism
A recent New Yorker short story entitled Foreign-Returned by Sadia Shepard was criticized by Francine Prose as being a rip-off and a retelling of a Mavis Gallant short story published in the magazine in the 1960’s. Prose’s contention is that Shepard’s story took the same plot, the same situation between characters and even some of the same language found in the Gallant story and appropriated it. At the very least, Prose seems to feel, the story should have been published with some sort of attribution to Gallant. [Read more…]