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...Pamuk avoids claustrophobia by elevating his repetitions into a self-referential body of work as complex as that of Nabokov, Barth, or Bolaño. Just as with those writers, the relationship between author and fiction remains intriguingly fluid. Many of Pamuk’s fictional landmarks are recognizable from his non-fiction memoir; Kemal even meets a character named Orhan Pamuk at his engagement party...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pamuk’s ‘Innocence’ a Stylistic Triumph | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...girl twins. We make handy symbols for any writer who feels inclined to muse on the nature of human identity, which is basically every writer ever. But twins aren't symbols; they're people. There are not, to my knowledge, any great identical-twin novelists (though I think John Barth has a twin sister), and I have never yet read a fictional account of twinness that I found convincing, with one exception: Darin Strauss's excellent Chang and Eng, about Barnum & Bailey's famous Siamese twins. As Elspeth tells her lover Robert shortly before she dies, "You haven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ghost World | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

...Nobody ever complained about their work, ever,” Barth said, calling the team’s positive attitude “a breath of fresh...

Author: By Helen X. Yang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mapping a Bird Brain in Japan | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

...Barth also said the pace was taxing, with married post-docs with families often staying past midnight...

Author: By Helen X. Yang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mapping a Bird Brain in Japan | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

...There was nothing negative about the work environment, well, aside from me, who’s like why am I here till 8 p.m. at night?” Barth said, adding that being the first person to go home was a real taboo...

Author: By Helen X. Yang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mapping a Bird Brain in Japan | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

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