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...prolific author, Galbraith has written numerous works of fiction and non-fiction, including what many consider to be the definitive study of the 1929 economic crash...
...best proof of the inherent eccentricity of existence--this week's best proof, anyway--is that Italo Calvino, revered author of If on a winter's night a traveler and other classics of post-modern literature, began by writing neo-realistic stories of the Italian Resistance. In the recently retranslated and re-released The Path to the Spiders' Nests, Calvino tells the story of Pin, a street urchin. Pin, mischievous and impish and all those other cute things we expect of urchins, lives a difficult life. (This too we expect, although Pin's life has cruder aspects than most...
This is not a promising premise for a book. Too many things can go wrong: Depending on how the author wishes to remember his or her childhood, the book can become either morbidly depressing or Disney-fied; the antics of a kooky bunch of losers in the army can rapidly degenerate into irritating mugging; coming-of-age stories are often excruciating excursions into nostalgia for a past and innocence that doubtless never existed...
...wants to work in that lazy, procrastination period right after dinner. So let your food settle and take part in a talk presented by the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Forum Committee. Dr. Jerome Groopman of Harvard Medical School and author of "The Measure of Our Days" will speak on the Intersection of Spirituality and Medicine. Listen to the lecture and let the good times roll. 7:30 p.m., Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, 52 Mt. Auburn St. FREE for students, $5 for community members...
Yesterday David Mamet, a prominent playwright and author of screenplays such as Wag the Dog and Oleanna, spoke to a crowd of approximately 100 people about the philosophy behind his work...