It was not until after his wunderkind years wrapped up with Magnolia that Paul Thomas Anderson started sincerely working with adapted material. Never one for a traditional approach, his first “adapted” film, Punch-Drunk Love, was an extrapolation on a news story about a man who manipulated an airline points promotion by buying pudding cups to get flights for pennies on …
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Everything is connected in Shadow Ticket, Thomas Pynchon’s fleet-footed noir fiction about a lindy-hopping detective in prohibition-era Wisconsin. The homemade bomb connects to the runaway cheese heiress, the cheese heiress to the federal agents, and the feds to the pro‑Nazi leagues at the bowling lanes outside town. Early-30s Milwaukee, in turn, is connected to powder-keg central Europe, where paramilitary groups …
Read More »NEW YORK (AP) — In the decade since she published her acclaimed debut novel, “The Turner House,” Angela Flournoy has confronted a few delays, welcome and otherwise, en route to completing her second book: her first child, a pandemic, speaking engagements, the occasional essay and, throughout, the challenges of creating a work of imagination. “With nonfiction, you’re usually doing it …
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