Sean Fitts

Translation as creation: Breon Mitchell strikes a new beat on The Tin Drum

Some authors I take the most pleasure in reading write in a language I cannot understand: Italo Calvino, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Fyodor Dostoevsky, etc. Nothing disappoints me more than not being able to read their works in the authors'...

Instigatorzine: A new literary publication celebrating local authors

For those who have tried, getting original work published is a trying task. The difficulty lies in a literary magazine's discomfort in publishing unknown authors. To be considered by most literary magazines, you must be established and able...

Best Original Screenplay nominee: Up, written by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, and Thomas McCarthy

Completing the list, in alphabetical order, of films nominated in this year's Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay is Pixar's Up. Written by a triple-team of thinkers (Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, and Thomas McCarthy), Up...

Best Original Screenplay nominee: A Serious Man, written by Joel and Ethan Coen

I am in awe of the Coen Brothers: Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowski, Miller's Crossing, etc., and their adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men was marvelous. Their particular sense of humor I have...

Best Original Screenplay nominee: The Messenger, written by Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman

On of this year's most powerful motion pictures, The Messenger (while not nominated for Best Picture), is nominated for the Best Original Screenplay Oscar. Written by Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman, The Messenger is the story of two...

Best Original Screenplay nominee: Inglourious Basterds, written by Quentin Tarantino

Continuing in alphabetical order by film title, Inglourious Basterds is next up for discussion as a nominee for Best Original Screenplay. Written by Quentin Tarantino (a former winner of this award in 1994 for Pulp Fiction), Inglourious Basterds follows two...

Best Original Screenplay nominee: The Hurt Locker, written by Mark Boal

By now, many of you have seen this year's Oscar nominations. Perhaps many of you have weighed in, printed out your own ballots, and made your picks. The category that interests me most, from the perspective of literature...

9/11 fiction: The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Since 2002, a lot of good fiction has been written around the events of 9/11. Most of these stories focus on the New York side of the attacks, but that is a testament to the symbolic power the Twin...

Part V of New Jersey: The literary state. Revisiting Portnoy's Complaint

Newark-native, Philip Roth has always been a brave novelist. Unafraid of taboos, Roth has given us some of literature's most sexually driven characters. In 1967, Roth introduced the world to the most famous of these characters: Alexander...

Poetry Reading: William Carlos Williams' "The Red Wheelbarrow"

A practicing physician and resident of Rutherford, New Jersey during his lifetime, William Carlos Williams also wrote some, to put it modestly, pretty good poems. A master of free verse, Williams wrote poems by strictly limiting a form without limitations...

Translation as creation: Breon Mitchell strikes a new beat on The Tin Drum

Instigatorzine: A new literary publication celebrating local authors

Best Original Screenplay nominee: Up, written by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, and Thomas McCarthy

Best Original Screenplay nominee: A Serious Man, written by Joel and Ethan Coen

Best Original Screenplay nominee: The Messenger, written by Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman

Best Original Screenplay nominee: Inglourious Basterds, written by Quentin Tarantino

Best Original Screenplay nominee: The Hurt Locker, written by Mark Boal

9/11 fiction: The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Part V of New Jersey: The literary state. Revisiting Portnoy's Complaint

Poetry Reading: William Carlos Williams' "The Red Wheelbarrow"

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