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Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children won the Booker Prize in 1981 and in 2008 was named the best of all Booker Prize-winning novels in the illustrious British prize's first 40 years. Not content with simply writing, Rushdie, who is a master conversationalist, has also acted in movies, and made a cameo in Bridget Jones's Diary. In 1999, he had an operation on tendons in his face to enable him to better open his eyes, perhaps to the detriment of his ravishing look of manly semi-consciousness. But his sharply angled eyebrows and goatee still create...
...guests a tall can of marijuana cookies. For entertainment, Michael twanged his Jew's harp, the instrument disappearing in his foot-long beard, as a young couple strummed a song called "F--- You." The scene could have come from Carolyn's latest book, The School on Heart's Content Road, which features (among other things) a militia movement that brings conservatives and hippies together (and polygamists, secessionists, farmers, home-schoolers, intellectuals, vegans - her vision is generously inclusive...
Both aesthetically and historically, “Ergo” is a piece of disillusioned postwar literature. The entire novel is as arbitrary, surrealistic, and tenebrous as the episode of Aslan’s death. Its violent content and spastic structure incarnate the fury of war and the gloom of post-war Europe...
...you’re really serious about this kind of project and its accessibility and popularizing both the ideas and the content,” she says, “a more natural form nowadays would probably be online publication,” she says...
...Wisse, as well, the work is a valuable resource, and one which will provide a basis of lively discussion over the content and criticism presented in the anthology. However, she admits, “I don’t often approach these things with high hopes.” Referring again to the tendency authors, including herself, have to fixedly retain their certain style of prose, she says, “I think that one can compare the essays that people wrote with their general writing and see a correlation…If they published in academic publications...