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...college experience? I’m not advocating that we ultimately throw ourselves into the Charles River, like Quentin Compson in The Sound and the Fury. But surely it wouldn’t hurt to skip class once in awhile, go boating with dapper northern bluebloods, play with our father??s watch and indulge in jumbled metaphysical speculations about the nature of time. The incest part might have been a little weird. But Faulkner, like other writers, had a point about the indissoluble link between beauty and death, a theme that turned over eternally in his characters?...
...fortunately at home,” said his son Peter F. Weller, a professor at Harvard Medical School who announced his father??s death. “He passed away quietly in his sleep...
...Diamond’s two sons, Joshua has read all of his father??s books, with the exception...
...been almost entirely self-taught. He grew up in Berkeley, Calif. with his mother, a dancer named Renee Shedroff. His father, though, was legendary jazz saxophonist Dewey Redman.Dewey was more a musical influence on Redman than a parental influence. Redman grew up listening to his records and seeing his father??s gigs when he played in San Francisco. When Redman decided to go into music, it was his mother who was supportive and his father who told him to stick with law school.Dewey played on Redman’s latest album, “Back East...
...story. When we meet the protagonist Ruma, a young mother recently relocated to Seattle, she’s nervously anticipating the arrival of her father, who, having taken to travel after losing his wife, is filling his time between European tours by visiting his daughter. Ruma worries that her father??s visit is an indication that he wants to claim his traditional right to live with her as paterfamilias. When she sees him planting hydrangeas—“They were always your mother’s favorite...in this country, that is?...