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While mental trauma and war often go hand in hand, no one has ever quite approached the subject as Jakov Lind does in his novel, “Landscape in Concrete.” The surprisingly entrancing and fantastical story follows shellshocked ex-Nazi sergeant Gauthier Bachman as he tries to find a battalion after his own is decimated at Voroshenko. On his way, Bachmann meets an array of fairytale-like characters stuffed into military uniforms, and he embarks on a series of strange, allegorical adventures. He is, for the most part, unaware of his mental illness, but Lind?...
...that was on the cover of the old Skeleton Crew paperback? Right. And he'd like to do The Long Walk, which is one of the Bachman books [written by King under a pseudonym]. But The Long Walk is so downbeat, it makes The Mist look like Young Frankenstein...
...temps, doing legal transcription and computer programming, respectively. "Work is just what most people do," he says. "Including us." Members of FOW don't lionize work, but they don't condemn it either. Rock bands traditionally write about white-collar work as corrupt (the Beatles' Taxman) or for suckers (Bachman-Turner Overdrive's Takin' Care of Business). FOW write about it the way country and folk singers write about manual labor: as a fact of life. Besides, Schlesinger adds, the life of a nonsuperstar rock band is not that far removed from a lot of day jobs: "We spend most...
...campus. But that isolation—forcing unique and strange comedy acts that go beyond mere observational humor—just might be what makes Harvard stand-up interesting.HA-HA HARVARD“There really isn’t much of a scene,” says Cooper R. Bachman ’06, a stand-up comic who will be performing at this Saturday’s Demon ComedyFest. The event, which will exclusively feature Harvard comics, is organized by Demon Magazine, an on-campus quarterly humor publication.Akshay G. Lohitsa ’07, organizer...
...World Series' first game, 11-9, in a comedy of errors (five) and homers (three). Is Boston playing the tease again, only to lose a spirit-crushing Game 7? Or will there, at last, be cheering and crying in Red Sox Nation? --Reported by Sean Gregory and Jane Bachman Wulf/Boston and New York