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...mood of Experience is thus valedictory rather than recriminatory. The book hums with the same antic prose and looping comic riffs that characterize Amis' fiction. He recounts his dental misadventures, for example, with masochistic self- mockery. But about the sufferings of others he manifests a tenderness that may surprise his faithful readers. The portrait of his father, in his happy prime and then in sad decline, is fascinating and moving. "When he made you laugh," Amis writes, "he sometimes made you laugh--not continuously, but punctually--for the rest of your life." How fortunate that this son is, like...
Even Stalin was fond of citing the fiction that his prosecutors were independent and beyond his control. And that's why Russians will take little comfort in President Vladimir Putin's suggestion, while traveling in Spain, that he knew nothing about the arrest this week of anti-Kremlin media mogul Vladimir Gusinsky. Gusinsky, the oligarch whose Media-MOST company operates radio, TV and print media critical of President Putin's administration, was arrested Tuesday, purportedly on charges of stealing $10 million in state property, and taken to a 19th-century prison where he'll have to wait 10 days before...
...Harvard Fiction Workshop...
This group seeks to provide students with a forum in which to discuss and revise their own works of fiction with their peers. Its founders hope to provide a less academic atmosphere from Harvard's creative writing classes, where spaces are limited and competition for them is high...
...Harvard Fiction Workshop (HFW), for instance, has the same goals as Harvard's creative writing classes, but seeks to address the limited number of spaces available in those classes...