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...prowl for all those skeletons in the closet, historical fiction author William Martin ’72 is writing his seventh novel, Harvard Yard, on the history of Harvard. The novel, due to be published in the fall of 2003, is the sequel to Martin’s New York Times Best Seller, Back Bay, which fictionalized the Puritan city’s founding. Reintroducing several of the characters from Back Bay, Harvard Yard will recount the entire history of Harvard, following the book’s main character, Peter Fallon, on a hunt to find a rare and valuable...
Explaining why Harvard was a particularly fitting setting for a historical fiction novel, Martin said that, “When you look at the history of Harvard, it was the first in a lot of ways. It was not only the first college; it was the first corporation, which is a pretty significant thing in American history. It was the seed of learning that created a generation that, in the Northeast, created the American Revolution. It’s been a hotbed for a long time.” While Harvard may seem to be a relatively quiet and sheltered...
Like most delusionals, meanwhile, the Harvard Syndrome sufferer interweaves fact and fiction, creating a tapestry of paranoia worthy of Oliver Stone. So the acknowledged fact that some Harvard students are lazy (yeah, I’m talking to you, classics concentrators) becomes, in the mind of Inouye, evidence that we are all a “lazy bunch.” The presence on campus of a few meatheads, legacies and dim bulbs with bizarre talents is transformed into unmistakable proof that we’re not “that smart.” And our obnoxious but understandable...
...over 500 pages, including copious footnotes. Moore first gained mainstream media exposure when his "Watchmen" series, about the killings of retired superheroes, established him as a master at orchestrating long-term themes and motifs in the uniquely visual literature of comix. His "From Hell," goes further by turning non-fiction into a singular artistic vision tying together art, history and the supernatural...
Then in 1989, as we were just trying out living half the time in New Orleans, half in San Francisco, my book Queen of the Damned hit No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list. It was a staggering moment. I had never dreamed that my eccentric fiction would have such mainstream appeal. But it meant that we could stay in New Orleans for good. That book, that moment, that decision, changed my life forever. I cannot even imagine my life if I'd stayed in California...