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...addition, the following members of the Class of 2006 were elected to Harvard’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa...
...mild-mannered doctor known as 'the kindest of men' kills his wife in horrific fashion and buries her remains in the cellar of their London home. He escapes with the unsuspecting , 'other woman' aboard a ship bound for North America...As always, Larson recounts a fascinating and largely forgotten chapter from history with a novelistic attention to narrative, unforgettable characters, and the evocative details of a bygone time." The author will be signing a lot more books, as he is set to embark on an ambitious 14-city tour...
...focus on Chávez at the end of the race is only the final chapter in a colorful campaign that has centered more on the candidates' personalities and their supposed allies than on the issues. Besides Chávez, Bolivian President Evo Morales, former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori and his corrupt, imprisoned national security advisor, Vladimiro Montesinos, have also figured prominently...
...This manifests itself throughout Fun Home, which ranks as one of the most self-consciously bookish graphical works yet published. Many of the chapters use a canonical literary work as a central metaphor and reference point. Often as tangentially associated with homosexuality as her father, the works cited include The Greek Myths, Camus's The Death of Sisyphus, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, The Great Gatsby and eventually back to the Greek myths by way of James Joyce's Ulysses. The "Ulysses" chapter takes place near the end of Fun Home, when Bechdel must read...
...course readers don't want to become editors. What they want, what I want, is for what I'm reading to have already undergone the sort of editing that allows reading to be an intimate, thoroughly immersive, deeply pleasurable activity. Who is going to DJ "Freakonomics," the opening chapter of "The Mill on the Floss," and one of Mr. Updike's golf poems into some grisly new work? The only people who will do something like that are the same people who stand most to benefit from bookscanning: writers! Book scanning...