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...performance artist Lan Tran, and poet Truong Tran all presented readings to the audience gathered in Ticknor Lounge. Sollors provided opening remarks and introduced the first reading, Andrew Lam’s “Child of Two Worlds,” an angst-ridden autobiographical sketch of the author??s exile from Vietnam and his coming of age in America, from his essay collection “Perfume Dreams.” “His writing represents the inevitability of some form of American assimilation that, while it is still taking place, we no longer have...
...dead feet in my face. It wasn’t pleasant. I have to say the juxtaposition of “Lives” and “Cadavers” is clever, though. Why someone would want to read about dead human bodies is mildly unsettling, and the author??s last name, Roach, in bold, bright red letters, doesn’t make the book any more enticing. In fact, the combination of the two only makes me think about roaches infesting a decaying body. A pleasant lunch read, I’m sure. THEN WE CAME...
...Case for Literature,” a collection of essays and lectures inspired by the 2000 Nobel Lecture of Gao Xingjian—the only Chinese author ever to win the Nobel Prize for Literature—is in many ways the author??s literary manifesto.Gao, an intellectual who wrote his most well known novel, “Soul Mountain,” while in exile after the Chinese Cultural Revolution, is a self-described non-Communist, non-democratic, non-traditionalist non-modernist author. Rejecting the ideological dogmatism that defined the nation of his birth, Gao argues...
...first pink polo shirt I ever saw on a male…was six sizes too big on the back of a huge black dude with diamond earrings that were way bigger than the ones my grandparents gave me for my bat mitzvah.” Charitably, the author??Princeton’s Tessa Brown ’08—managed to identify one black man worthy of praise, seeing in “Kanye West and his ghetto fabulous take on the argyle sweater vest,” a true fashionista?...
...book signings, public talks, and television appearances as a required part of the package. It used to be that writing a book made you a celebrity; now, being a celebrity gets you a book deal. Bookstores abound with middling memoirs that made it through publishing houses because of the author??s name recognition. Of course, some celebrities do write “real” books. Jimmy Carter wrote a novel that, to most reports, wasn’t half bad, though it does have a sex scene (a disturbing thought). A whole bevy of celebrities, from Jodie...