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Controversial Slavic author Dubravka Ugresicc shared how her experiences traveling throughout the globe has affected her writing and warned against the strict categorization of writers by their nationality in an address at the Barker Center on Friday afternoon. Despite the dreary weather, the event attracted a diverse audience of about 30, including Harvard professors of Czech and Polish Languages and Literatures, undergraduate and graduate students, and fans of Ugresic’s works from outside of the Harvard community. Ugresic, who taught briefly at Harvard in 1992, was invited as the first guest in a series of seminars hosted...
...Sittenfeld is the author of Prep and American Wife (Random House...
...first contemporary pick in three years with A Million Little Pieces, James Frey's presumed memoir of addiction and recovery. Pieces sales skyrocketed, and while the attention undoubtedly padded Frey's pockets and those of his publishers, it also shone enough light on the controversial book that the author was forced to admit he had embellished and even made up some of its most compelling passages. Hell hath no fury, of course, like a TV megacelebrity scorned, and while Winfrey initially said she stood by Frey, she took the stage of her talk show to announce: "I made a mistake...
...that John McCain has committed to turning up, he and Barack Obama will take the stage tonight with their rhetoric and demeanor set to a specific temperature. "Do you want a hot debate or a cold debate?" asks Stuart Stevens, a Republican media consultant, author and screenwriter who helped prep George W. Bush for his encounters with Al Gore in 2000. "You have to decide...
Both the Obama and McCain campaigns declined to discuss specific details of their preparation. "It's the sausage-making part of the process," says Alan Schroeder, a Northeastern University journalism professor and author of Presidential Debates: Fifty Years of High-Risk TV. "It's the part of the process the public is not meant...