Writers at the Movies
Twenty-six Contemporary Authors Celebrate Twenty-six Memorable Movies
Edited by
Jim Shephard [+–]
Jim Shepard is the author of six novels, including most recently Project X, and four story collections, including You Think That’s Bad. His third collection, Like You’d Understand, Anyway, was a finalist for the National Book Award and won The Story Prize. Project X won the 2005 Library of Congress/Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction, as well as the ALEX Award from the American Library Association. His short fiction has appeared in, among other magazines, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, The Paris Review, The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, DoubleTake, the New Yorker, Granta, Zoetrope: All-Story, and Playboy, and he was a columnist on film for the magazine The Believer. Four of his stories have been chosen for the Best American Short Stories and one for a Pushcart Prize. He’s won an Artists’ Grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He teaches at Williams College.
An anthology of writings by poets and novelists brought together in celebration of specific individual movies that have in one way or another inspired, seduced, horrified or fascinated them. Offering unique glimpses into a writer’s perspective on film are, among others, Salman Rushdie on The Wizard of Oz, J M Coetzee on The Misfits, Robert Coover on Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr, Julian Barnes on Chabrol’s Madame Bovary and Susan Sontag on Fassbinder’s Berlin Alexanderplatz.
