Talk About “By the Numbers”
...moreBowling scenes tend to pop up in films that fizzle, Mr. Bruzzese, 39, continued. Therefore it is statistically unwise to include one in your script. “A cursed superhero never sells as well as a guardian superhero,” one like Superman who acts as a protector, he added.

Two Latin American novels, published in English for the first time, stake out radically different artistic territory.