If a story makes an impact on you then, you are more likely to repeat it to your friends and thus spread its popularity. The anthology starts of with ‘The Weight of a Feather’, which deals with the sudden milestones of growing up. All of Croome’s stories have a message that the reader can take away, the sign of a brilliant short story.
She takes the reader on a journey through life and its various nuances. “The promise implicit in an anthology is that it aspires to present something different, unexpected” Joyce Carol Oates (Introduction to The Oxford Book of American Short Stories) From the classical form of ‘The Weight of a Feather’, first published by The Huffington Post (2013), to the suggestive allegory of ‘The Leopard and The Lizard’, this collection of short stories by South African author Judy Croome is an ideal mix of the familiar and the startling. These vibrant slices of life testify to the mysterious and luminous resources of the human spirit. Whether feeling the harrowing emotion in ‘The Last Sacrifice’ or the jauntiness of ‘Jannie Vermaak’s New Bicycle’, the reader will delight in a plethora of stories that cross boundaries to both challenge and entertain with their variety. Production is scheduled to begin early in 2014.Buy: Amazon Paperback | Kindle | Barnes & Nobles Jesse Eisenberg (above left) will portray Lipsky. The Wrap tells us that James Ponsoldt will direct from a script by Donald Margulies. One of the great literary minds of his generation speaking frankly and at length with an award-winning journalist who, himself, has a great deal to say.”
As I wrote in my review, “Lipsky is a skilled interviewer and a terrific writer and so what we end up with is far, far beyond what might be expected. For various reasons, the piece never ran but after Wallace died, Lipsky turned the extensive material he had into a surprisingly vibrant book. The film is currently being called The End of the Tour and covers a five day period that Wallace spent with writer David Lipsky, on assignment for Rolling Stone while DFW was promoting Infinite Jest, the book that brought him fame. I can’t help but think that Jason Segel will be terrific as David Foster Wallace in a planned biopic based on a book I liked a lot back in 2010.Įven though, as the Los Angeles Times points out, Segel has “made a career out of playing adorable goofy guys,” interviews and subtext in some of his film roles reveal the possibility that we will be treated to a more thoughtful and darker side of Segel as he plays the brilliant author who killed himself in 2008.
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