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...paperback edition and a series of "Jest Fest" readings and panels. But it might be just as appropriate to deliver a eulogy for Infinite Jest--not to praise it but to bury it. After all, it did not win (nor was it a runner-up for) the National Book Award or the Pulitzer Prize or any other major award. It was hailed as the Novel of the Future, and in fact it kicked off a temporary revival of the maxi-novel, books like Cryptonomicon and The Corrections and Underworld and White Teeth. For a moment there, it felt as though...
DIED. Philippe Noiret, 76, one of France's most esteemed actors, who lent an earthy, avuncular charm to more than 125 movies over a half century; in Paris. A two-time winner of the César award (France's Oscar), he gained global fans as a weary film projectionist in 1988's Cinema Paradiso and as the poet Pablo Neruda in the 1994 hit Il Postino...
...DIED. Philippe Noiret, 76, one of France's most esteemed actors, who lent an earthy, avuncular charm to more than 125 movies over a half century; in Paris. A two-time winner of the César award (France's Oscar), he gained global fans as a weary film projectionist in 1988's Cinema Paradiso and as the poet Pablo Neruda in the 1994 hit Il Postino...
Emily K. Vasiliauskas ’07 is the latest Harvard senior to receive a prestigious award to study in the United Kingdom. As one of 43 students nationwide to win a Marshall Scholarship, she will join six Harvard Rhodes Scholars in the UK next fall. A literature concentrator in Lowell House, Vasiliauskas will study Criticism and Culture in the Faculty of English at Cambridge University. Lyric poetry has been a focus of her time at Harvard, and she used her personal statement in her application to elaborate on the “value of poetry...
...award, established by John Shattuck, chief executive officer of the JFK Library Foundation, also emphasizes youth involvement in public service...