Word: authored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yoshino said that Advocate member Adam M. Lifshey '91 suggested the idea of the banned books reading soon after the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini banned Rushdie's book in February and set a price on the author's head...
John Updike couldn't always get the words out. Ever since childhood Pulitzer Prize-winning author has had a stuttering problem. And although the speech defect has not stopped him from making his thoughts known in the long run, it did as a child...
SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS by John Updike (Knopf; $18.95). A wry, haunting memoir by an author who decided while he was still a young man that the printed word would disguise his flaws, only to learn that success leaves one painfully exposed...
...publicity campaign. It was a lot more entertaining, and possibly more sociologically edifying, than Slaves of New York, the collection of short stories about the downtown art scene that book flacks so heedlessly hyped to bestsellerdom. Alas, the movie people got stuck with the book and with its author as screenwriter. And now the public is stuck with a movie that compares rather unfavorably to periodontal work in amusement value...
...year. In fact, the trip has taken much longer than that. William Golding first shoved Talbot off dry land in Rites of Passage (1980), which went on to win the Booker Prize, Britain's most coveted award for fiction. After receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983, the author got back to Talbot's story in Close Quarters (1987). Fire Down Below completes Talbot's memoirs and provides a glimpse of the older man who wrote them. He has evidently done well for himself: "Only the other day the Prime Minister himself said, 'Talbot, you're becoming a deuced...