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...explain the handcrafted antique seriousness of his best work. That would include 1983's Waterland, a sweeping, impressively detailed family saga of fortune and folly. Swift's version was watered down into a movie with Jeremy Irons and Ethan Hawke, but the novel made the short list for the Booker Prize. Swift finally won the Booker in 1996 for Last Orders, an equally powerful tale of four London friends heading for the seaside to spread the ashes of a pub mate. Both Swift's first novel, The Sweet Shop Owner(1980), in which a dying man reflects on his life...
...advice on how to become a writer in the face of societal pressures to pursue professional careers. Recently, the experiences of Indian immigrants have become a hot topic in literature. Last year Kiran Desai’s “The Inheritance of Loss” won the Booker Prize, and Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Interpreter of Maladies” won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000. Last month, a film based on Lahiri’s novel “The Namesake”—about a boy raised by Indian parents in America?...
...been very lucky in Paris," says Robin, who arrived in the city from Brittany at age 17 and went to work for Jean Louis David before becoming a model booker at Elite Model Management. "People would call up asking for a blond, and I would contact a model and say, "Quick, come to my kitchen?you're going blond...
...part of a new crop of young African-American politicians--like Newark Mayor Cory Booker and Illinois Senator Barack Obama--who attended lite colleges. Do you feel any kinship with them...
...transcends race. There has been such an emphasis on personal responsibility for a long time as part of our public policy, but shared responsibility is in part what government is about. That vision of government has been reasserted in my campaign, in Senator Obama's campaign and in Cory Booker's campaign, and in others', white and black...