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John L. Ashbery ’49, Jamaica Kincaid and Salman Rushdie, three of the greatest writers of our time, shared the stage last Friday in a reading organized by The Harvard Advocate, with the support of their trustees, to raise funds for the magazine. These writers owe their prominence to their unique visions of the world, but, as artists, have invariably wrestled with common themes and challenges...
...this Mr. Potter isn't Harry's dad. Mr. Potter, a native Antiguan of African descent, works on the Caribbean island of Antigua as a chauffeur for a Mideastern immigrant. He is the focus of Jamaica Kincaid's new novel, "Mr. Potter," (Farrar, Straus; May). PW is swept away, giving the book a starred review. "Another unsentimental, unsparing meditation on family and the larger forces that shape an individual's world...As in her previous books, Kincaid has exquisite control over her narrator's deep-seated rage, which drives the story but never overpowers it, and is tempered...
This project has helped Breece to realize that some day he would like to be a screenwriter. To that end, he is taking a writing seminar this semester with Jamaica Kincaid, who is visiting lecturer on Afro-American studies and on English and American literature and language, in addition to tutorials in history and literature and Afro-American studies, Spanish 27, a women’s studies class and a Core. “There were a lot of classes I wanted to take this semester, and now that I’m getting into thesis mode there is reading...
...pictures of beautiful people for his high school yearbook. Four years later his subject—beauty—is the same, but his outlet is a little more high class. These days Sheng is a bona fide artist whose first professional photography exhibition opened last Friday at Jamaica Plain’s Gallery at Green Street. His journey from high school to Green Street has included both an introductory community college course and the most theory-heavy offerings of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies—and he has done most of it without the approval...
...Photography” during his sophomore year, he showed his work to the teaching fellow for the course, who put him in contact with James Hull, owner of the Gallery at Green Street. The gallery, which is on the second floor of the Green Street T-station in Jamaica Plain, is a nonprofit organization that promotes the work of “emerging and well-established” artists in Boston. Hull, who shows a wide range of media in his gallery, says he was impressed with Sheng’s portfolio. “I liked the fact that...