Calendar letters to the editor, Jan. 26: Not such sweet music at academy
” by Dorany Pineda [Jan. 18]: Why does Jeanine Cummins have to be a Latina to write a novel like “American Dirt”?
A novelist is a writer who enters someone’s head to find out what is going on there and then to write of it in a compelling way. It’s called the imaginative gift. The novel “A Cool World” takes for its subject a 13-year-old black kid growing up in Harlem in the ’50s. It’s a brilliant, extraordinary book, The writer is Warren Miller, as white and middle-class as you can get, who decided not only to write the book but to write it in the first person with the kid narrating the action.
Thomas Berger — another white guy — wrote “Little Big Man,” an account of the Indian wars of the 19th century. He takes a chunk of American history and re-creates it with such precision and eye for detail that the line between fiction and nonfiction entirely dissolves. It’s also hilarious. And that is my point, that the writer writing need attend to one thing only: Make the book worth reading.I hold Kenneth Turan in the highest esteem as a film critic and observer.
It is a cliché, but accurate nevertheless, to point out how others’ use of electronic devices interferes with the enjoyment of a film. The only effort by most theaters to minimize this consists of sandwiching a brief, humorous reminder among the many commercials they present. Speaking of commercials: During my most recent visit to a cinema, beginning at the posted showtime, I clocked 25 minutes of commercials and trailers; this was after the pre-showtime commercials. Theater owners can find the real culprit in their grimy bathroom mirrors.The past was grand, and different. Likely the next future will have fewer theaters and more home screening. Sad in some respects, since the experiences are not comparable.
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