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With this as my backdrop, I regarded John as a perverted family secret. Throughout elementary school, I lied about the number of siblings I had. I didn’t want to talk about him??about how he was responsible, at least I thought, for my father never being home and for my mother’s constant crying. I didn’t want people to know that I regularly helped my mother clean up his “accidents.” By the fifth grade, I developed a fear that my school bus would arrive...
...Sierra Leonian heritage—by keeping his distinctive accent, for example, and playing soccer instead of basketball. Keeping in touch with his father was more difficult. “Dad was still in Sierra Leone, and I began to play scrabble as a way to remind me him??, Edgar explains. “When the bombing started, he taught me to play and ever since then scrabble has been a really important link between me and my dad?...
...Sound of Music, if it had been written about a hundred years later than it was. While the coda to “Pagan Poetry,” a call-and-response between Björk and her multiplied chorus-self of “I love him/She loves him?? has the audacious simplicity that is often only achieved in musicals. The image of Björk as a prodigiously talented child within an adult’s body and voice is fed by her playful treatment of language, like a well-read three-year...
...good. In person, one gets an idea of what he meant: Rushdie brims with a humor and energy that are outshone only by his abundantly apparent fascination and infatuation with the world. His newest novel, Fury is a first step in a new direction for him??shorter, fast-paced and more personal. Still, when Rushdie was in Harvard Square last Thursday reading from the novel for Wordsworth Books, he chose to obscure some of the more personal elements of the book (despite quipping that Fury is “entirely autobiographical—it shouldn?...
Rubin says only, “I think he was an outstanding choice,” and admits to being “asked about him?? by the Harvard Corporation...