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The Box Office Belletrist: The Escape ArtistInto the Wildby Jon KrakauerKnopfFebruary 1997, 224 pages, $13.95[24 March 2008]by Jennifer MakowskyThe desire to escape that lives in each of us, and the consequences of acting on that desire, is what makes us care for Chris McCandless (Into the Wild), and what makes his short life such a compelling story.
The Box Office Belletrist
Love in the Time of Record ShopsJennifer Makowsky21.Apr.08Technology may have changed the way we obtain music, but as Nick Hornby's High Fidelity reminds us, it can never alter our love affair with the medium. 
Standing by Stephen KingJennifer Makowsky05.Mar.08Childhood and the end of innocence are vividly portrayed in Stephen King's novella The Body, and Rob Reiner's excellent interpretation, Stand by Me. 
The Sins of the SisterJennifer Makowsky14.Feb.08A director can translate a writer’s words to the screen beautifully, but he can never alter their power on the page. The book and film versions of Atonement prove this all too well.
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