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CIFF CAPSULE: “ABACUS — SMALL ENOUGH TO JAIL”

Written by JAKE MULLIGAN Posted September 14, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Film

The punchline to those lone criminal charges—as it’s told in this film by Hoop Dreams [1994] director Steve James—is that Abacus didn’t even contribute to the crisis.

Filed Under: A+E, Film Tagged With: Abacus Federal Savings Bank, Altmanesque, Camden International Film Festival, CIFF, nonfiction, NYPD, The Accused, Thomas Sung

CIFF CAPSULE: “MAINELAND”

Written by JAKE MULLIGAN Posted September 14, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Film

While accommodating on a technical level, they meet the foreign students with typical condescension: signs for “English-only common spaces,” classes that begin with “so where are you from” conversations, that whole routine.

Filed Under: A+E, Film Tagged With: Camden International Film Festival, CIFF, Fryeburg, High School Musical, Maineland, Miao Wang, nonfiction

MUCH MORE THAN A MURDER MEMOIR

Written by M.J. TIDWELL Posted May 29, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Books

Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich explains where stories really come from

Filed Under: A+E, Books Tagged With: Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, books, Brookline Booksmith, Grub Street, harvard, memoir, nonfiction, The Fact of a Body, true crime

‘POP’ GOES THE GENRE

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted May 20, 2016 Filed Under: A+E, Books

A conversation with Berklee English prof Mark Polanzak about his new sorta memoir

 

As journalists at DigBoston, it’s hard for us to worship genre-benders who take liberties in weaving fiction into nonfiction and memoir. But while phonies like Ben Mezrich patch ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Books Tagged With: bereavement, Berklee, books, Boston, fiction, Mark Polanzak, memoir, nonfiction, pop

EXCERPT: ‘POP!’ BY MARK POLANZAK

Written by DIG STAFF Posted May 20, 2016 Filed Under: FEATURES, Specials

But I wrote this funny story about my dad’s death. It goes on for many more pages, being funny and super distanced from the grief.

Filed Under: FEATURES, Specials Tagged With: bereavement, Berklee, books, Boston, fiction, Mark Polanzak, memoir, nonfiction, pop

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