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...happened, the two barely spoke. "Of course the situation was impossible," Joyce recalled later: "Proust's day was just beginning. Mine was at an end." And Davenport-Hine's real story is about to start. After sitting all these characters down to dinner in the first chapter, the author devotes the rest of the book to just one of them: Proust. When he arrived at the Majestic party, the French author was at his peak, having just published Sodom and Gomorrah, the startlingly explicit fourth volume of his Remembrance of Things Past. Six months later he would be dead. Davenport...
Fante's novel was a dirge-hymn to L.A. at the time when the first wave of immigrants, teeming west from the plains and north from Mexico, collided in a movie dream gone sour. Published to little note, it slowly found important devotees. Charles Bukowski, L.A.'s signature outlaw author, used to channel the book's hero, shouting "I am Bandini, Arturo Bandini!" Screenwriter Robert Towne fell in love with the book when researching his script for Chinatown, also set in the '30s. Now, a generation later, he has made an elegiac movie of Ask the Dust...
...Goddess of the Hearth Betty Friedan, the feminist author whose book The Feminine Mystique ignited the women's rights movement, died last month at age 85. Friedan exploded the myth of the happily homebound suburban mother, whose claustrophobic world TIME portrayed in a June 20, 1960, cover story...
...contributed to raising student interest in the arts, the Office for the Arts announced Wednesday. Durang will be the 12th to add his name to the list of notable alumni artists, including cellist Yo-Yo Ma ’76, director Peter Sellers ’80 and author John Updike ’54, who have earned the medal. In May, University President Lawrence H. Summers will present the award to Durang during the 14th annual Arts First celebration, a four-day festival of theater, dance, music, and film produced by Harvard students. “I think he?...
...several years now. A couple of years ago, I actually received an e-mail from a correspondent in the Midwest asking me if it was true, as a local columnist claimed, that Harvard had replaced its course on the Revolution with courses on midwifery and quilting. As the author of a rather well-known book on an 18th-century midwife, I knew when I had been zinged. Complaints about the abandonment of the Revolution have little to do with Harvard, however. They ultimately derive from the “History Wars” of the 1990s, a period when National...