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...literary output and his blend of fiction and ethics - he took up environmental causes long before they entered the collective consciousness - have made him one of the most popular writers in France. As far back as 1994, a poll by a French literary magazine found Le Clézio listed as the greatest writer in the French language. (Never one to show much, if any, emotion, Le Clézio responded to the result by saying, "I would have put Julien Gracq...
...Gist:In 2002 Rice, the queen bat of vampire fiction, shed her fangs and began writing books (two so far) about the life of Jesus. This memoir is Rice's attempt to explain her return to Christianity, moving from the idyllic New Orleans of her 1940s childhood to the renunciation of her Catholic faith - indeed, of all faiths - during her student years and after in 1960s San Francisco. Rice's reminiscences about her ensuing atheist period and the success of her decidedly irreligious vampire novels are tinged with some sorrow; she moves earnestly on to the 90s, years in which...
...they may be reluctant to talk with authority figures about topics like sex that are socially taboo. With PCC counselors at study breaks, younger students will have a natural, social opportunity to ask their questions about sex and get real answers—not dining hall or locker room fiction. Harvard students should think about sex: In light of Trojan’s recent Sexual Health Report Card, the need for educational outreach seems especially important. The college would do well to recognize that positive, peer-to-peer education about mental health and eating concerns would also greatly benefit freshmen...
Chatterton: Jim Cameron's movie was a great movie and sometimes people have trouble differentiating fact from fiction and think Jack was really on the Titanic. But before that movie there was A Night to Remember. The Unsinkable Molly Brown was a Broadway play. The Titanic has woven itself into modern culture. When Bob Ballard found it 20 years ago, it was front page news. When we left the dock, we believed mostly what we saw in the film because it was the conventional wisdom of the day. We didn't know any better...
...that country,c to write critical pieces on the futility and criminality of war. Her anti-war pieces, which were deemed anti-nationalistic, subsequently made her a target for Croatian media and political figures. Ugresicc eventually left Croatia in 1993. She categorized her works as “patchwork fiction,” a combination of personal memoir, critical commentary, and fiction. Ugresic also told the crowd that the “luggage of labels”—how she referred to the literary market’s tendency to label writers based on their nationality?...