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Granger was the author of "Eminent Domain," "The Compete Works of Studs Edsel," and many other one-act plays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Playwright Percy Granger Dies at 51 | 3/14/1997 | See Source »

Hello, future fellow alumni! I am Sack, the heretic author of An Eye for an Eye. Call it chutzpah, but in it I wrote that in 1945 hundreds of Jews wore olive-colored uniforms and ran a Polish bureaucracy called the Office of State Security. I wrote that they and the Catholics who worked for them rounded up German civilians, took them to 1,255 camps, beat them with "beaters-to-death," put splinters up their fingernails, put living toads in their throats, and put gasoline in their hair, then lit it. I wrote that...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: A Holocaust of Scholarship | 3/13/1997 | See Source »

...advice given to aspiring writers is to "write what you know." In one sense, New Mexican author Tony Hillerman has done that very well; his accuracy and skill in portraying the Navaho religion and culture in his best-selling mystery novels has won him the "Special Friend of the Dineh" award. But the name of the award is important: Hillerman is not of the Dineh, and in choosing a Navaho narrator, he enters a potential mine field the old adage is designed to avoid...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Hillerman Interweaves Mystery and Mysticism | 3/13/1997 | See Source »

Naheed K. Nenshi, opinion editor of The Citizen, received a separate memorandum, which also included racist attacks, from the same author...

Author: By Andrew S. Chang, | Title: KSG Students Receive Hate Mail | 3/12/1997 | See Source »

Sallie Tisdale, author and contributing editor to Harper's, falls on the whiny side of this divide. No doubt she is well-intentioned, as most of the whiners are, but she comes off as selfish and old-fashioned, like some decaying actress caught backstage. Her argument in the recent Harper's runs smoothly enough: Libraries have gone over to entertainment, peddling videos and Internet access in the hopes of enticing people to use the library. This kind of instrumental programming, such as handicraft classes, social work and lectures, has always failed in the past and will continue...

Author: By Noah I. Dauber, | Title: The Politics Of Silence | 3/11/1997 | See Source »

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