With new summer movie releases comes a crop of film-related books. Here are some of the season's tie-ins, studies and biographies.
A GALAXY NOT SO FAR AWAY: Writers and Artists on Twenty-Five Years of Star Wars
Edited by Glenn Kenny. Holt/Owl, $15 paper (288p) ISBN 0-8050-7074-5The mention of Star Wars
inspires fervor among many writers. For some, their viewing of the films was life-changing. Premiere
magazine senior editor Kenny gathers essays that explore various takes on Star Wars
from hip-hop activists, novelists, critics and others. Director Kevin Smith writes, "A brother just can't escape being a Star Wars
dork sometimes"; writer Neal Pollack offers a parody that involves Osama bin Kenobi and Puke Skybarfer; Jonathan Lethem (Motherless Brooklyn) admits to seeing the original Star Wars
21 times in the summer of 1977; and book editor Webster Younce confesses that watching the Star Wars Holiday Special
is "an agonizing experience." (Sept. 6)
