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Director Ang Lee's latest film "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" is based on the original novel. This is a story about love, courage and loyalty, and a young man who finally finds his place in the world. The National Book Critics Circle Award for Best Novel of the Year, "American Entertainment Magazine"'s Top Ten Best Books of the Year, and one of the BBC's twelve best novels of this century. It is a bitter and satirical anti-war masterpiece and "Catch-22" in the new century. In the Battle of Al-Ansaka Canal, Billy Lynn's Class B defeated the enemy and finally won the long war in 3 minutes and 43 seconds. Overnight, they became American heroes. Everyone said "We appreciate you," everyone wanted to shake their hands, reporters rushed to write about them, Hollywood wanted to make a movie about them, and they were even invited to the Super Bowl halftime show. Although what exploded in his ears was not bombs but gorgeous fireworks, what passed him was not the dense bullets but the sequins on the backing dancers, and what came to him was not a red-eyed enemy but the pop queen Beyoncé. But for a moment, Billy felt that it was better to fight, which was much better than being moved around like a stage set. God's proof, war sucks, but he really can't see what's good about this boring peaceful life. Billy Lynn faced the greatest challenge of his life.

"A Brief Encounter with an Extinct Bird" is a collection of short stories written by Ben Fontaine, the author of "The Long Intermission", which took him 18 years and more than 30 trips to Haiti to write. Once published, he won the Hemingway Award and the O. Henry Award. The author is hailed as Hemingway's future successor. The novel depicts eight gorgeous and absurd mini-shorts, eight exotic adventure stories in the 21st century, which can shape the entire world in just a few pages. From Haiti, Myanmar to Sierra Leone, amidst the great changes of the times, people full of good intentions and hope were eventually involved in a storm that they were unable to resist...