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...Naipaul, knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990, is now considered a giant in postcolonial fiction, having won almost every major literary award except the Nobel Prize. Born in Trinidad to West Indian parents in 1932, "Vido," as he is called in the book, was able to secure a prestigious Trinidad government scholarship in 1948, which he used to fund four years of study at Oxford University. Family Letters documents Naipaul's life spanning a period from just before his departure for England, to the critical acclaim following the 1957 publication of Naipaul's first book, The Mystic Masseur...
...Biswas (1961), an account of Indian lives in Trinidad that was clearly based on the experiences of Naipaul's father, as well as of his own. But Family Letters provides additional glimpses into Vido's early preoccupation with themes that would later fill his travel writing and fiction, including alienation and the tenuous relationship between the Third World and its Old World colonizers...
...Henry Kissinger has been sustained precisely because it's a kind of geopolitical don't-ask-don't-tell, which can mean different things to each side: Beijing interprets it as meaning the mainland ultimately rules Taiwan; the nationalist government in Taipei has long contented itself with the fiction that "One China" means it is the legitimate government of all of China. Beijing may issue threats and even move troops around, but it can't afford to risk the humiliation of losing a military standoff - and it's far from a foregone conclusion that China's military has the capacity...
...kind of happen, to make a picture. Or sometimes I stage them right from their inception. I have a series of working styles, but I don't adhere to any one fully. But they are completely constructed-even if I happen on a place, I'm still creating a fiction. The work really does exist somewhere between autobiography and fiction. They are places that I know, people that I know. Yet, these aren't moments that are real. This is a friend who's struggling with HIV, but he doesn't go into rest areas like that. They're kind...
...reports of these types of gay activities on campus lean more towards fiction than fact. However, the shock factor is still there. Sex in the stacks or not, this is new and more exciting news. Happy Cruising...