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...Times noted the following day that "of the principal prize winners only one, Mr. Algren, had been on the best-seller lists" and all three "shared the common lot of being in part hard to read." Other renowned (if narratively challenging) recipients over the years include Joan Didion, William Faulkner, Saul Bellow and Susan Sontag...
...Everyone just busted out and was unbelievably fast,” Mills added.Other notable events included the 1000-yard freestyle, the 200-yard backstroke, the 200-yard breaststroke, and the 200-yard individual medley.In the 1000-yard freestyle, junior Alexandra Clarke, freshman Catherine Zagroba, and junior Katie Faulkner swept the event, with Clarke finishing an astonishing 39 seconds ahead of the first non-Crimson swimmer to touch the wall.Sophomore phenom Katherine Pickard picked up where she left off last season by winning the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 2:04.19. She matched that finish with a victory...
Though he's widely traveled and keeps an apartment in Paris, Eggleston has worked mostly in the South. All the same, it makes him squirm to hear people describe him as a regional artist--Faulkner with a Leica. "I have never considered myself making what one would call Southern art," he says. "There is such a thing, but I don't do it." He insists he's not interested in local color, though there's no denying that it finds its way into a lot of his images. "The pictures look Southern because that's where they were taken...
...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’ minds, and an ache that has vanished amid smaller ones for many of today’s undergraduates...
...MacArthur "genius" grant in 1997, was a tennis prodigy and a math whiz (his Amherst philosophy major focused on modal logic, whatever that is). His thoughts sprawled beyond the boundaries that most writers observe into notes and equations, one sentence going on for so many pages even Faulkner would have demanded a period. He seemed curious about everything: he wrote nonfiction articles about food and porn conventions and Dennis Hastert and women's tennis. His essay for the New York Times' Play Magazine celebrating "Federer as Religious Experience" is a classic of sports writing...