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The Affair Finale: Saving the Very Best for Last

Finales of significant and great series come in on all kinds of levels.  The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Star Trek: The Next Generation in their own very different ways came in the very best (see my PBS interview about this a few years ago).  I'd say The Affair came in tonight in that very lofty company.

It was a heart-warming, healing, beautifully and sadly appropriate ending to a brilliant, disturbing, unique, and refreshing series.  Noah and Helen in bed together, with all four of their children sitting on a bench outside of the motel room.  Just perfect.   Joanie finally growing into herself and going home to her husband and kids.   Noah on the cliff overlooking the water and dancing at the end, both of the finale and of his own life.  A Noah wiser than he'd ever been.

Those were the big things, pure gold, and there were more of them.  But there also were little things.  Bruce coming through for Whitney, even though his brain is faltering.  The fact that Helen and her mother died the very same year (poor Helen couldn't get rid of her). The dance that the kids and Whitney's new husband and Sierra and even Helen's mother did - no, that was not a little thing.  That was a big thing, and wonderful.

But I was sad that Noah at the end has lost Helen, in a way that can't be repaired.  Sad and glad that he can at least talk to her at her grave, and read to her from their daughter Stacey's book.  Life and love and talent can endure through generations.  That's a great parting thought, and I'm glad Noah was still alive to convey it to us.

What an Emmy-worth performance by Dominic West, and by Maura Tierney as Helen, too.  They both deserves the very highest accolades for their work in this series, as do the creators Hagai Levi and Sarah Treem.   The Affair was before the finale one of my favorite series ever on television.  The finale makes it even more so.

See also The Affair 5.1: Death, Nobility, and Science Fiction ... The Affair 5.2: Tears and Floods ... The Affair 5.3:  The Raya App ... The Affair 5.4: 2053 ... The Affair 5.5: No One Happy ... The Affair 5.6: Best Episode of the Season So Far - Finally, About Joanie ... The Affair 5.7: On Montauk, Now and Later ... The Affair 5.9: Moth to the Flame ... The Affair 5.10: Thoughts, Looks, Words, and Actions ... The Affair 5.11: Helen and Noah
And see also The Affair 4.1: Quakes and Propaganda ... The Affair 4.2: Meanwhile, Back on the Island ... The Affair 4.3: Dire Straits (Not the Band) in California ... The Affair 4.4: Ben ... The Affair 4.5: B'shert ... The Affair 4.6: "Good News and Bad News" ... The Affair 4.7: Noah and Janelle ... The Affair 4.8:  I Don't Believe It ... The Affair 4.9: Two Alisons ... The Affair Season 4 Finale: Best Scenes
And see also The Affair 3.1: Sneak Preview Review ... The Affair 3.2: Sneak Preview Review: Right Minds ... The Affair 3.3: Who Attached Noah? ... The Affair 3.4: The Same Endings in Montauk ... The Affair 3.5: Blocked Love ... The Affair 3.6: The Wound ... The Affair 3.7: The White Shirt ... The Affair 3.8: The "Miserable Hero" ... The Affair 3.9: A Sliver of Clarity ... The Affair 3.10: Taking Paris

And see also The Affair 2.1: Advances ... The Affair 2.2: Loving a Writer ... The Affair 2.3: The Half-Wolf ... The Affair 2.4: Helen at Distraction ... The Affair 2.5: Golden Cole ... The Affair 2.6: The End (of Noah's Novel) ... The Affair 2.7: Stunner ... The Affair 2.8: The Reading, the Review, the Prize ...And see also The Affair Premiere: Sneak Preview Review ... The Affair 1.2: Time Travel! ... The Affair 1.3: The Agent and the Sleepers ... The Affair 1.4: Come Together ... The Affair 1.5: Alison's Episode ... The Affair 1.6: Drugs and Vision ... The Affair 1.7: True Confessions ... The Affair 1.8: "I Love You / I Love You, Too" ... The Affair 1.9: Who Else on the Train? ... The Affair Season 1 Finale: The Arrest and the Rest
 
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In the Shadow of the Moon: Time Travel Under the Table

So I saw an odd little, strangely compelling, movie on Netflix last night, just as our clocks were slipping back an hour.  Turns out that that timing, for want of a better word, was just right.

In The Shadow of the Moon is advertised as as a strange crime movie, in which a series of bizarre murders happen every nine years.   In Philadelphia.  That should have been the tip-off for me - Philadelphia.  I mean, that's where the one of the all-time greatest time travel moves, 12 Monkeys, takes place.  And Philadelphia just speaks of science fiction.  That's where I'll be next weekend - at Philcon, the world's "first and longest-running" science fiction conventions (organized by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society) - where I'll be on panels, reading from my new alternate-Beatles story, and singing songs from my new album, Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time," to be released early next year.

And, sure enough, that's what In the Shadow of the Moon turns out to be: a science fiction story, more specifically, a time travel story! (I love time travel), in which the killer turns out to be a young woman from the future who travels back in time, on a quest that is every time traveler's dream (well, most of them) to save the world from an awful fate.

The Philadelphia ambience, starting in the 1980s and moving up to the present, is excellent.  Dexter's Michael C. Hall has a decent role, and the acting in general is fine (shout-outs to Boyd Holbrook as the cop, Cleopatra Coleman as the killer, and filmmaker Jim Mickle). There's a mad scientist, an obsessed cop, and most important (for me), the movie has a real heart and soul.

So see the movie, and if you're in Philadelphia next week, come by and hear some of my science fiction songs.  At least one is about time travel.

 


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Jack Ryan 2: Fascism Loses - At Least, In This Story

The second season of Jack Ryan began streaming yesterday on Amazon Prime.  My wife and I saw it tonight, and thought was it excellent, and better than the first season, which I said last year was splendid.

The theme was shreddingly relevant to the world around us right now: a President in Venezuela who values his power more than democracy and is willing to do anything to hold on to his power.  By relevant, I'm not referring to the shaky hold on democracy that has long characterized many countries in South America.  I'm talking, sadly and obviously, about what is going on in the United States right now.

President Reyes is willing to suspend elections when he fears they're not going his way, and order a compliant military to murder civilians.  True, that's not quite as bad as what we have in the United States today, and not likely to happen.  But that's only because I don't think our military would follow orders like that in the United States.  But the very fact that we have to think about it, which is because we have a President who daily denounces the news as fake and thinks any votes against him were somehow rigged, is reason enough to be very concerned.

Meanwhile, on the screen, Jack Ryan was better than ever.  He's unbribeable and unshakable in his devotion to truth and justice.   He's clearheaded and steadfast in his loyalty to his friends.  And he gets the job done.  The story has some good turns, suitable villains, and even a complicated love interest who gets in the action with Jack in more ways than one.  And the supporting characters, ranging from the lead commando team,  to Greer and November, are all in good, memorable form.

So see the second outing of Jack Ryan on Prime Video and enjoy.  And take comfort in the fact that our current President in what passes for real life these days was roundly booed tonight in Madison Square Garden.  (That's right, Joe Scarborough, that's democracy.)

See also: Jack Ryan on Amazon Prime: Right Up There

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Emergence 1.5: Supergirl

With last night's episode 1.5 of Emergence, Piper has moved from the category of someone with superpowers to Supergirl.  That's because she clearly has more than one incredible superpower.

She not only can move around huge objects with ease - like a truck barreling towards her car - but she can also see inside Ed's body and know that the medication he's taking for his cancer isn't working.  Either one of those powers would make Piper a superhero, as Mia earnestly asks Piper if she is after Mia, in the same car, witnesses Piper's trick with the truck.  Mia doesn't yet know about Piper's medical diagnostic power.  If she had, she would likely realize that Piper is much more than your traditional super hero.

And, like Supergirl, Piper has her Kryptonite.   That would be Kindred, and the door he's literally able to draw Piper through, to be assert his authority.  The question still remains as to what that authority is.

As I wrote about Westworld - and indeed, twenty years ago in a piece called The Civil Rights of Robots.  AIs, androids, robots, are entitled to make their own decisions and chart their own destinies if they are sentient.  Making a slave of a sentient being we invented is no better than making a slave of a sentient being already in existence.  We know now that Piper is an AI.  The growing presence of Kindred means that Emergence is now in the same fascinating and treacherous philosophic waters as Westworld.

Which makes Emergence even more eminently worth watching.

See also: Emergence: May Just Make It ... Emergence 1.2: Cleaning Up ... Emergence 1.3: Robots and Androids ... Emergence 1.4: Android Child






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Prodigal Son 1.6: Bad Boy

Prodigal Son 1.6 brought Ainsley much closer to her dad - at least, much closer to interviewing him - which is good (for her, contra her mother's reservations, and for the overall narrative).   But Bright had little do with this, and instead was focused on the murder of a guy, and the murderer, who turned out to be the guy's young son.

This bad boy story - literally a boy, not figuratively - has been popping up a lot on television, most recently on Evil.  Fortunately, the episode on Prodigal Son had a much better ending than the one on Evil, which I guess is why they call the series Evil.  But I gotta say that, in addition to not being a big fan of this evil with a small "e" child motif because I don't like seeing kids in that position, the set-up and solutions are usually obvious and even trite.

In the case of Prodigal Son, it was obvious as soon as Bright talked the boy with the rabbits that there was something not right with the kid.  And it also was obvious that Bright was turning a blind eye to this, because he himself was the edge of being a very bad boy when he was younger.

That said, Prodigal Son still has an excellent set-up, with memorable characters propelled by strong acting.   Ainsley's arc is slowly taking off, and when it gets higher in the sky, we should be in for some real revelations.   One of the problems with these network shows which try to balance continuing stories with separate episodes is that, the more intriguing the continuing story, the less patience you have for the separate weekly storylines.   My recommendation to Prodigal Son - spend less time on them and more on the underlying tale.  It's almost impossible to pack as much wallop in a new story that will conclude in under an hour than you can in the longer-range story unfolding on our screen.

See also: Prodigal Son: A New Serial Killer ... Prodigal Son 1.2: Dreams or Memories? ... Prodigal Son 1.3: LSD and Chloroform ... Prodigal Son 1.4: Ainsley

 
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The Deuce Finale: New York

The Deuce series finale was just on HBO.  Unsurprisingly and appropriately, not much in the way of happy endings.  But ...

Well, that last segment of New York City in 2019 was a mini-masterpiece in itself.  With almost everyone we came to know dead, decrepit, or just not known, we found one clear winner in 2019: the vibrant, cleaner, streets of New York.  Although Vince was less than happy - old and I assume still alive in that last scene, fantasizing not hallucinating on the verge of death as he walked that street - we the audience can't deny that what he saw for real around him was better than what he saw in his prime decades in that place.

The reunion with Frankie was perfectly sad and wise.  The encounter with Candy, coupled with what Vince earlier saw about her career, had a similar mix.   Sadness and wisdom - or time, as Vince told the image of his brother when Frankie told Vince how bad he looked - was dripping and palpable in every frame.

The only one who was ahead at this point was Abby, a successful businesswoman.   Vince doesn't see her in his aged imagination.  She walks down the street after Vince has descended into the subway.  A symbolically on-key tableau of two former star-crossed, porn crossed lovers, missing each other one last time on the street.

I think The Deuce really said and showed some important things.  I'd have liked an even longer finale - what happened to Harvey, for example - but who am I to complain?

See also The Deuce 3.1: 1985 ... The Deuce 3.2: The First Amendment! ... The Deuce 3.3: Love and Money, Pimps and Agents ... The Deuce 3.4: Major Changes ... The Deuce 3.5: Lori and Candy ... The Deuce 3.6: Memorable Scenes ... The Deuce 3.7: Who Is Lori Madison?

And see also The Deuce Is Back - Still Without Cellphones, and that's a Good Thing ... The Deuce 2.2: Fairytales Can Come True ... The Deuce 2.3: The Price ... The Deuce 2.4: The Ad-Lib ... The Deuce 2.6: "Bad Bad Larry Brown" ... The Deuce 2.9: Armand, Southern Accents, and an Ending ... The Deuce Season 2 Finale: The Video Revolution

And see also The Deuce: NYC 1971 By Way of The Wire and "Working with Marshall McLuhan" ... Marilyn Monroe on the Deuce 1.7 ... The Deuce Season 1 Finale: Hitchcock and Truffaut 

  
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of The Misfits and begins to hear a haunting song in her head,
"Goodbye Norma Jean" ...

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The Affair 5.10: Helen and Noah

And The Affair checked in tonight with its very next to last episode - 5.10 - and, depending upon what's on the screen next week, the series may have saved its best for next to last.

Noah and Helen frequently had the best stories over the years, and tonight they had it all, with a Helen story, a Noah story, a Noah and Helen story, and another Noah story, all superbly acted by Maura Tierney and Dominic West.  It was about how they escaped the fire, and finally ended up as friends, again, at the very least.

The drama was great, as the two walked down a steep side of a canyon, at Noah's behest, as the only way to get ahead of the flames.  But if that wasn't enough, Helen getting bitten by a snake, and Noah saving her, again, this time by getting her to hospital on time, was just the thing.

All of this served as a fitting canvass for the two to tell each other, and therefore us, their stories.  Why Noah married and then left Helen and their family.  Why Helen married Noah, and how she survived Noah's leaving them.  If there were another season, I wouldn't mind at all seeing the two get back together again as a married couple.  It would be the ultimate healing of what happened.  But I doubt that's going to happen next week.

Noah and Helen still wrongly think that Allison took her own life.  The coming attractions show Joanie again in the future.  This still leaves some room for at least Joanie getting some truthful resolution on her mother's death.  If by chance Noah is still alive then, too - it was hard to tell in the coming attractions - then he'll be able to get some truthful resolution on what happened to Allison, too.

I'm sorry to see this unique series come to an end.  But tonight's episode shows it's giving coming to an end a good shot at ending well.

See also The Affair 5.1: Death, Nobility, and Science Fiction ... The Affair 5.2: Tears and Floods ... The Affair 5.3:  The Raya App ... The Affair 5.4: 2053 ... The Affair 5.5: No One Happy ... The Affair 5.6: Best Episode of the Season So Far - Finally, About Joanie ... The Affair 5.7: On Montauk, Now and Later ... The Affair 5.9: Moth to the Flame ... The Affair 5.10: Thoughts, Looks, Words, and Actions
And see also The Affair 4.1: Quakes and Propaganda ... The Affair 4.2: Meanwhile, Back on the Island ... The Affair 4.3: Dire Straits (Not the Band) in California ... The Affair 4.4: Ben ... The Affair 4.5: B'shert ... The Affair 4.6: "Good News and Bad News" ... The Affair 4.7: Noah and Janelle ... The Affair 4.8:  I Don't Believe It ... The Affair 4.9: Two Alisons ... The Affair Season 4 Finale: Best Scenes
And see also The Affair 3.1: Sneak Preview Review ... The Affair 3.2: Sneak Preview Review: Right Minds ... The Affair 3.3: Who Attached Noah? ... The Affair 3.4: The Same Endings in Montauk ... The Affair 3.5: Blocked Love ... The Affair 3.6: The Wound ... The Affair 3.7: The White Shirt ... The Affair 3.8: The "Miserable Hero" ... The Affair 3.9: A Sliver of Clarity ... The Affair 3.10: Taking Paris

And see also The Affair 2.1: Advances ... The Affair 2.2: Loving a Writer ... The Affair 2.3: The Half-Wolf ... The Affair 2.4: Helen at Distraction ... The Affair 2.5: Golden Cole ... The Affair 2.6: The End (of Noah's Novel) ... The Affair 2.7: Stunner ... The Affair 2.8: The Reading, the Review, the Prize ...And see also The Affair Premiere: Sneak Preview Review ... The Affair 1.2: Time Travel! ... The Affair 1.3: The Agent and the Sleepers ... The Affair 1.4: Come Together ... The Affair 1.5: Alison's Episode ... The Affair 1.6: Drugs and Vision ... The Affair 1.7: True Confessions ... The Affair 1.8: "I Love You / I Love You, Too" ... The Affair 1.9: Who Else on the Train? ... The Affair Season 1 Finale: The Arrest and the Rest
 
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The Current War: "A Lovely Little Movie"

My wife and I just saw The Current War.  She said, as we were leaving the theater, that it was "a lovely little movie".  I agree completely.

The subject was about as big and momentous as you can get: whose brand/kind of electricity, Edison's or Westinghouse's, would become the national standard?  This "war" was fought in the 1880s and 90s.  The winner was George Westinghouse, and his AC (alternate current) indeed became the standard for delivery of electricity that we still use.

The loser, Thomas Edison, was a far more important person in history, having harnessed not only electricity in his electric light, but invented the phonograph and motion pictures (the latter also invented at pretty much the same time by the Lumière brothers in France and William Friese-Greene in England).  But Edison and his team rightly get the credit in the United States.

So what made this movie "lovely".  Edison is usually portrayed in straight-up history books as ruthless and obsessed with success.  Benedict Cumberbatch's Edison has these traits, but they're tempered by a real humanity.  Edison doesn't want to use electricity to take human lives, including in the electric chair, thought to be more humane than hanging.  Yet he gives one of the electric chair champions explicit instructions, in a brazen attempt to stain Westinghouse (also perfectly by portrayed by Michael Shannon, who, like Cumberbatch, is outstanding in everything he does).  And when the electrocution is applied, it turns out to be a very inefficient, cruel method of meting out death.  Question: Did Edison deliberately give poor instructions, because he was steadfast in his desire not to see electricity employed to kill human beings, including those convicted of murder?

The history, as far as I know it, was right on the major details, but perhaps not in every conversation portrayed.  At one point, Edison characterizes his motion pictures as doing for the eye what his invention the phonograph does for the ear.  As I always heard it, it was the phonograph does for the ear what the camera (not Edison's invention, having been invented nearly half a century earlier) does for the ear.   But who really knows.

My wife and I also really enjoyed the movie because we've long been fans of late Victorian culture.  There was something truly heady about the first use of telephones, phonographs, and electric lights,  and this was sensitively and satisfying portrayed in The Current War.  It was also instructive to see the beginning of almost no holds-barred corporate rivalry, and the manipulation of the media to win these battles.

One thing you won't find in this movie, however, is a satisfying portrait of Nikola Tesla, who is suggested as a major character but actually isn't in this narrative.  No matter, there were and will be other movies which focus more primarily on Tesla.

See the movie and enjoy the lights, the tenderness, and the struggling to set up the future, all so well shown on the screen.


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Mnemophrenia: Never Saying Goodbye

I just watched Mnemophrenia, put up yesterday on Amazon and made last year.  It's a brilliant, provocative, startlingly original movie, with no actresses and actors I've heard of, and written, directed, and produced by Eirini Konstantinidou, her first time out with a feature-length movie.  I'll predict flatly that Mnemophrenia is destined to become a classic, and the first of movies made by Konstantinidou that will be similarly received.

The story is about a mental state - seen as an affliction by some, a liberating step in our evolution by others - called mnemophrenia, or the inability to tell the differences between virtual reality experiences and the real thing.  But like all good science fiction and and even McLuhanesque thinking about the media, it may be that virtual memories, once embedded in the brain, are more real, or at least as real, as what we take in with our naked senses.

This new virtual/biological experience mix certainly has some profound benefits.  In the far future - there are three futures portrayed in this movie, near, mid, and far futures - and in that third future it also becomes possible to record a human being's experience on a chip that can be implanted in someone else's brain.  (One reason I really liked this movie is in my 2003 novel, The Pixel Eye, I had squirrels implanted with chips that recorded what they saw and heard, for the purpose of spying.)   In Mnemophrenia, this allows a kind of immortality, and picks up on a very powerful theme previously explored in a bunch of novels, my favorite being Charles Platt's The Silicon Man in 1993.  In the far future in the movie, a couple is able to stay together and go beyond via the implant, when the wife is stricken by a rare fatal illness.  There are several worthwhile stories in the movie, but the implant narrative in itself is heart-tugging and makes the movie memorable.

And the cinematography is vivid, surprisingly so for a first time director.  Although conversation is king, hands and feet play almost as much a major role as the expressive faces.  And the little futuristic windows that pop up in some of the scenes actually provide a stream of very useful information, in addition to being fun to look at.

See this movie, and see if you agree.  I should mention that Eirini Konstantinidou was my student at Fordham University, in our MA in Public Communication program, more than a decade ago.  That accounts for the speed with which I put this movie on my screen and reviewed it here, not what I've said about this movie in this review.


  


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My Set List for 9 November 5:30pm Philcon performance

Jeremy Thompson, Paul Levinson, Steve Padin, Chris Hoisington

Here's the set list for my 9 November 2019 (Saturday), 5:30-6pm performance at Philcon (in Cherry Hill, NJ, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel), room Plaza VI (Six) - the first public performance of songs from my new science fiction related album, Welcome Up, produced by Chris Hoisington and to be released by Old Bear Records in early 2020:

If I Traveled to the Past (words by Paul Levinson, music by John Anealio)  Tau Ceti (Paul Levinson and John Anealio)Samantha (Paul Levinson)Alpha Centauri (Paul Levinson and Peter Rosenthal) Cloudy Sunday (Paul Levinson and Linda Kaplan) 
Picture Postcard World (Paul Levinson)I Knew You By Heart (Paul Levinson and Peter Rosenthal) Welcome Up (Paul Levinson)Looking for Sunsets (In the Early Morning) (Paul Levinson and Ed Fox) The Lama Will Be Late This Year (Paul Levinson and Ed Fox)


The names in parentheses are the songwriters.  I'll be singing all the songs, against backing tracks from my new album Welcome Up (to be released by Old Bear Records early in 2020) and sundry other songs from Twice Upon a Rhyme (Happysad Records, 1972) and other places.

backing tracks for If I Traveled to the Past, Tau Ceti, Samantha, Alpha Centauri, Welcome Up, I Knew You By Hear, Picture Postcard World:  guitars Jeremy Thompson, drums and keyboard Steven Carlos Padin, harmony and production Chris Hoisington, keyboard Anthony Hoisington, accordion Don Frankel

backing track for Cloudy Sunday: guitar Peter Rosenthal, piano Barbara Krupnick, harmony and production Chris Hoisington, production Paul Levinson

backing tracks for Looking for Sunsets (In the Early Morning), The Lama Will Be Late This Year:  guitar Peter Rosenthal

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The rest of the convention should be lots of fun, too.  Here's my schedule:

Fri 6:00 PM in Executive Suite 623 (1 hour) READINGS: PAUL LEVINSON, APRIL GREY, JAMES CAMBIAS (3723) [Panelists: Paul Levinson (mod), April Grey, James L. Cambias]  Note: I'll be reading from a surprising, brand new story, for the first time in public!

Fri 7:00 PM in Crystal Ballroom Promenade (Gaming) (1 hour) AUTOGRAPHS: PAUL LEVINSON, APRIL GREY, JAMES CAMBIAS (3726) [Panelists: Paul Levinson (mod), April Grey, James L. Cambias]

Sat 11:00 AM in Crystal Ballroom Two (1 hour) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND CONSCIOUSNESS (3590) [Panelists: Jeff Warner (mod), David Walton, Rebecca Robare, Anna Kashina, Paul Levinson, Muriel Hykes] Does “I think, therefore I am” apply to AI? Could it ever? How could we tell if it happens

Sat 3:00 PM in Plaza V (Five) (1 hour) JEWISH SCIENCE FICTION (3530) [Panelists: Simone Zelitch (mod), Paul Levinson, Aaron Feldman, B. Lana Guggenheim, Daniel Kimmel, Alex Shvartsman] Is it a subgenre of its own? Plenty of Jews write SF, and plenty of non-Jews incorporate Jewish history and elements of the Jewish supernatural into their work. What can we learn from this classification, and does it enrich or limit how we read

Sat 5:30 PM in Plaza VI (Six) (30 mins) Paul Levinson mini-concert

Sat 11:00 PM in Crystal Ballroom Two (1 hour) GAME OF THRONES (3600) [Panelists: Charlie Robertson (mod), Michael A. Ventrella, Muriel Hykes, Paul Levinson] It wouldn't be inaccurate to say that *everybody* lost when it comes to the HBO adaptation. How should the show have ended? How might the ending of the novels differ

Sun 12:00 PM in Crystal Ballroom Two (1 hour) HOW FAR CAN YOU SUSPEND SOMEONE'S DISBELIEF? (3514) [Panelists: Elektra Hammond (mod), Paul Levinson, Lawrence Kramer, Julie Ann Dawson, Robert E. Waters] How much can you ask a reader to take on faith before they can't take your story seriously any more? Are there ways to get readers willing to accept more challenging changes and assumptions? What authors have succeed at pushing the boundaries without pushing their readers out of the story


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