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...Unlike Obama, Bush never had a reputation for being bookish. But Robert Barnett, the Washington superlawyer who represented Bush in the deal (he also represents Obama in his publishing ventures) describes 43 as an in-demand, dedicated author. "There were multiple publishers who expressed strong interest in the book," he told TIME. "The President started working on the book two days after he left office. He has worked on it virtually every day, and has already written 30,000 words...
...than Bolaño’s book—that there is any other book more deserving. Rather, the problems that I see all stem from that simple piece of common knowledge: Bolaño is dead. When the award was presented to the translator, Natasha Wimmer, the author himself was a thoughtless corpse decomposing in his lime-strewn grave.Awards should be given to the best book. I don’t dispute that. And in the case of the National Book Critics Circle Award, as I’ve already stated, I have no real problem with...
...Board of Trustees each year to the best undergraduate fiction piece published in the Advocate, the College’s quarterly literary magazine. Over two dozen students and faculty members crowded into the Advocate’s sanctum for the award’s ceremony where both Begley, the author of “About Schmidt,” and English professor Louis Menand, the judge of the Begley prize, praised the merits of Hale’s short story. “This is an absolutely brilliant piece of writing, and we’ll be hearing...
...author of the staff editorial needs to learn that not everything misaligned with his or her political ideology is malicious. Single-sex education is not about segregation or sexism. Single-sex education is not about replacing the gender-integrated system; it’s about providing an alternative that some students find more fitting...
English Professor Louis Menand recalled feeling thrilled when the Harvard Faculty finally approved the new curriculum at the last Faculty meeting of the 2006-2007 academic year. Menand, who helped author the Report of the Task Force on General Education, said that almost the entire room—168 professors, to be exact—raised their hands as the Secretary of the Faculty counted the votes. At that meeting, the Faculty moved to eliminate the nearly 30-year-old Core program and implement the new Gen Ed curriculum over a period of two years...