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...says. "Not even my publisher knew I was in the running." Lahiri, whose parents are from India, was born in London and raised in Rhode Island. Currently, she lives in New York and is working on a novel, a pursuit she was forced to suspend last week to contend with the flood of flower deliveries and phone calls. "I'm very impressed with the makers of my answering machine," she says. "I still can't believe it didn't break...
...with unimaginative students and dinners with pedantic colleagues, the disgruntled professor of Francine Prose's abrasively comic new novel, Blue Angel (Harper Collins; 314 pages; $25), can't wait to rush home so he can avoid writing his overdue third novel. In addition to battling ennui, Swenson must also contend with a forbidding campus environment fraught with race and gender minefields...
Other pertinent facts remain unclear. The officers contend that Dorismond ignored shouts of "Police" and lunged for Officer's Vasquez's gun, which discharged accidentally, killing him. This story is contradicted by an eyewitness who maintains that Vasquez threw the first punch and never identified himself as a police officer...
Besides academic theories, buildings and students, there is also money to contend with...
...final] I didn't feel as good as I did in the morning," Shevchik said. "I was a little disappointed with the 200 back. I had expected to contend for first...