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After more than three decades of critical acclaim and many visits to the best-seller list, Hillerman had a favorite anecdote, often repeated. It was about his first agent, who told him that if he wanted to have success as a writer, he'd have to get rid of "all that Indian stuff...
Salman Rushdie. Anita Desai. Amitav Ghosh. If you have to describe Indian literature written in English, words like highbrow and worthy come to mind. But while the country's serious writers - most recently Aravind Adiga - continue to attract international acclaim, domestically they are being overshadowed by a new breed of author...
...Rebecca—I think she’ll be the standard by which all other captains will be compared.”Words like experience and know-how get thrown around frequently in the world of sports. Each team has its own standout senior, with enough talent, acclaim, medals, and awards to go around.But in lightweight rowing, Kharrazi is truly a step above. She joined Radcliffe as a freshman, inexperienced in the world of collegiate rowing. She left her first year stroking the varsity eight—an unprecedented feat in the lightweight program.In the academic arena, it?...
...vehicle for the message. Rise Against is a four-piece punk rock band from Chicago consisting of singer Tim McIlrath, guitarist Zach Blair, bassist Joe Principe, and drummer Brandon Barnes. Over the course of five albums, they have successfully moved from indie to major label while gaining fame and acclaim along the way. On “Appeal to Reason,” Rise Against is in a constant state of urgency. The single “Re-Education (Through Labor)” makes a promise to those in charge: “We sweat all day long...
Petterson, a Norwegian writer, won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award last year for his novel Out Stealing Horses, as well as an even more elusive prize for a work in translation: critical acclaim in the U.S. The novel's success was all the more surprising given the quiet nature of Petterson's storytelling. His characters live mostly inside their heads; outside, they can be found in small villages in Scandinavia, drinking, chopping wood, fighting, reading, remembering. It's hardly the stuff of flashy, cosmopolitan fiction-without-borders...