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...cult hit among readers and practically a fetish object to critics. Bolańo's other major novel, 2666, is even more massive and more bizarre. It is also a masterpiece, and its publication in English translation by Farrar, Straus & Giroux on Nov. 11 is the most electrifying literary event of the year. With 2666, Bolańo's posthumous conquest of America is complete...
...veritable cultural force, a Monday night event, a dictator of trends, and, some say, a harbinger of the apocalypse. I refer, of course, to that singular bane of male existence, “Gossip Girl.” Since making the jump to the small screen last fall, Cecily von Ziegesar’s series of novels has ensnared a whole new audience in its pernicious spell. But it seems that “Gossip Girl” (or, at least, “Gossip Girl” copycatting) has decided to re-infect the literary world. A number...
...campaign spent months demonstrating the need for unity and the fruitlessness of the divisive politics of morality, the states seem to be picking sides on the intractable issue of same-sex marriage. More troubling than the simple passage of Proposition 8 in California are the national reverberations such an event might trigger. Even the thwarted opponents of gay marriage in the state of Massachusetts might take heart and be reinvigorated in light of this development...
...shelter’s work contract director, Eleanor R. Wilking ’09, began the event by noting that the dinner was “a little bit bittersweet” because, “we envision a day when our services as an emergency homeless shelter will no longer be needed...
...event also included special guest speaker Diane Hopson, who lived at the shelter for two months last year...