A few notable choices and omissions: the screenplay for "Beasts of the Southern Wild," written by Lucy Alibar with the director, Benh Zeitlin, in an adaptation from a play Ms. Alibar wrote, received no love from the Spirits.
A notable aesthetic choice was the use of doorways to create a contemplative mood while keeping his characters framed by the door.
The only notable choices are a handful of B&Bs, such as the Willows Inn (406-446-3913) and the restored Pollard hotel (800-POLLARD), a $4 million labor of love by owner David Knight, a New England businessman who took a shine to Red Lodge.
Notable choices include Birdie's Nest (Black Rock; 868-639-7988; www.birdiesnesttobago.com), a hard-to-find house directly on Great Courland Bay on the island's north shore.
His most recent book, Dirty Love, published in the fall of 2013, was a New York Times Notable Books selection, a 2013 Notable Fiction choice from the Washington Post, and a Kirkus Starred Best Book of 2013.
Penultimate (free on iOS) and FreeNote, note everything (free, or $6 for all features on Android) are also notable choices.
Included in the president's pardon list were some other notable choices, including commutations of sentences for two women jailed on drug charges who had received longer sentences for their involvement than the people who ran the operations.
Notable choices on other lists were two of last week's Booker prize also-rans, Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans and Matthew Kneale's English Passengers, on the novel shortlist.
He was eager to talk about one of the most notable choices he made in his adaptation, to have his actors sing live, instead of dubbing the songs afterward.
