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...last Thursday reading from the novel for Wordsworth Books, he chose to obscure some of the more personal elements of the book (despite quipping that Fury is “entirely autobiographical—it shouldn’t really be called a novel”). Rushdie read a chapter that required his self-possessed English accent to deliver itself of the cadences of, like, American youth to comic effect. In answer to a question at the reading about the importance of dreams and fantasy in his works, Rushdie spoke about the spilling over of the imagination into the real...
...generously overwhelming,” said Red Cross spokesperson Mary Thang. “[Interest has] been so terrific that we have to ask the public to be patient with us.” Thang estimated that the number of calls made by yesterday afternoon to the Massachusetts Bay chapter of the American Red Cross was in the “upper three digits...
...While some losses can never be reconciled, enmity need not be our permanent condition,” McCain said of American attitudes towards Vietnam. “Our nation’s best interests are poorly served by holding onto that dark chapter of our history...
...Israel's simmering border with Lebanon, every conflict looks existential. Sharon had a hand in each of Israel's wars, from the wound he received in the Battle of Latrun in 1948 through his controversial role as Defense Minister during the Lebanon War of 1982. In this decisive chapter of his life, the 73-year-old former general has to prepare for a kind of war and a kind of peace at the same time. The army, the right wing and his own Likud Party all want to hit the Palestinians harder; the few doves in his coalition...
...reading and subsequent question-and-answer session, sponsored by Wordsworth Books, Rushdie read a chapter of his new novel, Fury, to a near-capacity crowd of nearly 500 who welcomed him with warm, prolonged applause...