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...married to one of the better known writers of the last 20 years, Carolyn Chute, 62, author of five novels. Her first book, The Beans of Egypt, Maine, sold 350,000 copies and made her a darling of the literary establishment in the 1980s. The critics compared her to Faulkner and Steinbeck, because what she wrote about so well and so convincingly was the back-broken underclass in Maine, the people who work, like Carolyn once did, in shoe factories or scrubbing hospital floors or picking potatoes. Her characters watch helplessly, like Carolyn did, as children die from lack...
...Leskov, whose maps spanned from the 15th to the 19th century. Leskov was awarded $2,000 and will showcase his collection in Lamont Library. Taking second place and a $1,000 prize was Zimmerman, a Tennessee Valley native who entered his collection of books by authors such as William Faulkner and Robert Penn Warren, writers who were either wrote about the Tennessee Valley or were from the region. The Philip Hofer Prize, established to foster students’ interest in collecting, was founded in honor of Philip Hofer ’21, the first Curator of the Department of Printing...
...modern literary tradition—in particular, the Lost Generation writers and their contemporaries—has done something curious in romanticizing the throes of alcoholism. Hemingway, Faulkner and Fitzgerald were all raging alcoholics and filled their novels with characters who acted likewise. But never before, and rarely today, does a novelist confront addiction so intimately and personally as Jerzy Pilch in his recently translated novel, “The Mighty Angel.”A darkly humorous, yet undeniably serious, look into the life of a repeatedly relapsing alcoholic (also named Jerzy) and his recovering brethren...
...Behind Mills, Zagroba came in third while sophomore Laura Murray placed fourth. Harvard came up with another big win in the 1,000-yard freestyle, sweeping the top three places. Clarke led the pack, destroying her own school record by more than six seconds, followed closely by Kaufmann and Faulkner. Harvard was leading the meet by more than 200 points on Saturday, the final day of the championships.“We didn’t assume we were going to win the meet.” Pickard said. “We just swam every race and focused...
...relay. As the meet shifted to graduated relays, Harvard continued to find success, winning the 500-yard freestyle relay (4:40.05). Freshman Monica Burgos, sophomore Holly Furman, Zagroba, and junior co-captain Alexandra Clarke earned the narrow victory over Lightbourne, sophomores Ali Slack and Christine Kaufmann, and junior Katie Faulkner. The Crimson also came out on top in the 300-yard medley relay and the 300-yard freestyle relay. Northeastern’s only win came in the 150-yard freestyle relay, where the Huskies edged out sophomore Katherine Pickard, Clarke, and sophomore Laura Murray by just three-tenths...