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...talk-show hosts and the self-loving blather of the chattering classes, is the confessional mode of speech a vice? "The need to unburden was a selfish need" goes a line in the English author Nicola Barker's new novel, Wide Open, and ultimately the novel addresses the question of the line between the need for revelation and the desire for indulgence. Even as characters are drawn out of their shells, nothing is ever fully 'wide open...
...Barker assembles a cast of Londoners, misfits all, for her novel. Lily, the girl born wihtout fully-formed organs: Sara, Lily's mother and a boar farmer: Luke, the former pornographic photographer who smells of fish; Ronny, missing his big toes. At the slippery heart of her tale are two adult brothers, Nathan and Jim (whose name is really Ronny--all will be explained later) and Nathan's quest for redemption at not forcing his brother to escape from their pedophilic father...
Hidden in a little corner on Mass. Ave. opposite the Barker Center, Oona's, a used clothing store, largely serves the Harvard community for the Halloween costume rush...
Personal observations gave rise to the conference, Ulrich said, adding that at last fall's dedication of the Barker Center, she noticed that the walls only had "portraits of great men and some not so great men"--but no women...
...running late, and I was wandering around Barker Center looking for the meeting", he says. "I came into this room full of women, who all turned around and looked at me. [Schor] immediately said, 'Jim! Come in and have some pizza...