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...letters, but beyond existing on the page to the reader at hand (which is to say Christensen’s) they are themselves written by one another in turn, defined as characters within each others’ dramas. And throughout the text—or perhaps texts—author and creation become blurred beyond distinction. Christensen’s book collapses the so-called fact and fiction that separate the characters’ interior and exterior spaces. Like Sampel and Azorno, the five women—four of them claiming to be lovers of the author/protagonist...
...agreement on open-access publication makes current scholarly research available for all readers online at no cost. Though the new open-access model of online publication eliminates traditional subscription and processing fees, it maintains essential features of journal publication such as peer review and the “author-pays” model, in which the author must pay the publisher for the article to appear. The free access not only benefits readers but is especially beneficial for authors looking to expand their readership. “Open-access journals and closed-access journals operate in exactly the same...
...coming self-help author in “Love Happens,” Dr. Burke Ryan encounters many unorthodox ways of dealing with grief. A woman bakes her late husband’s favorite oatmeal raisin cookies garnished with his ashes. Another makes a mold of her dead husband’s penis. Unfortunately, these moments of humor in the midst of tragedy are set against a backdrop of an utterly predictable romance. “Love Happens” traces a hackneyed storyline—complete with dramatic slow-clap in the final scene—but ultimately entertains...
Bush, George W. • Arlington, Texas, students who were not allowed to hear President Obama's speech to them last week will not, after all, be bused off campus to hear a speech by • former speechwriter for is the author of the latest, though surely not the last, book containing embarrassing examples of the ignorance...
...authorities know that street demonstrations could easily flare up again, considering that some half-dozen universities crowd Enqelab (Revolution) Boulevard alone, site of a millions-strong silent march in June. But can the students dent the hard-liners' seemingly armored position of power? New York University professor Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, author of a new book, The Predictioneer's Game, that argues that pressure by student demonstrators this summer has already led to concessions by the regime, predicts that the influence of students will rise sharply this month to a level that will rival that of Khamenei's. "That doesn...