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...Hansen: Incredibly, there are still staunch deniers who would prefer to listen to a science fiction writer [Michael Crichton, author of "State of Fear," which challenges global warming science] rather than a real scientist. It is perhaps not a coincidence that the strongest deniers among the politicians have connections to the fossil fuel industry...
Gregory Maguire, author of “Wicked,” discussed his career since writing the best-selling novel at a dinner discussion in Lowell House Junior Common Room last night. The event was organized by Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters (BGLTS) tutors in the House. Maguire, a gay novelist, has written a number of revisionist retellings of children’s stories. “Wicked” is a take on the L. Frank Baum classic “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” Some of the initial reviews...
Rudy Wiebe, author of more than 20 works and two-time winner of the Governor General?s Literary Award, has fashioned a career writing of Mennonite life in Canada?s west. In fact, many of his books are based on, or inspired by, his own family. His newest, the memoir Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest (Knopf Canada; 391 pages) delves into his childhood in a remote Saskatchewan community...
...Being Russian Mennonites, the Wiebes didn?t drink or dance; storytelling was the top-billed entertainment. We can almost watch Wiebe grow into an author. He is simultaneously obsessed by with God, sex and fiction?the troika of many great writers. With Of This Earth, he gives us another delightful album of rural Canadian life...
...legal scholar, died Tuesday at his Cambridge, Mass. home. He was 70. The cause of death was non-Hodgkins Lymphoma—a form of cancer—according to a press release from Dartmouth College. Freedman’s longtime friend David Halberstam ’55, an author and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, told The Crimson yesterday that Freedman was a “great humanist” and “one of the most courageous men I have ever met.” “Ethics and living an ethical life were critically important...