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...John Wray, author of the new and notable “Lowboy,” has not had an easy way as a novelist. He wrote his debut, 2001’s “The Right Hand of Sleep,” in a tent in the basement of a Brooklyn warehouse, where he would by-now-famously listen to rats copulate. For his second book, 2005’s “Canaan’s Tongue,” he did his publicity tour by raft down the Mississippi in a (failed) attempt to get people...
...schizophrenia, but that’s simply a fact of his fictional life no matter how much it tugs at my heartstrings. So—what? If I’m going to invest myself in “Lowboy”—or in John Wray, for that matter—I need to know that his story matters not just to his mother and him. I need to know that it matters...
...TIME, one of the new programs recently installed under the direction of new curator Christina S. Davis. Since Davis arrived at Harvard in October, she has made efforts to share the famous, albeit a bit dusty, audio archives to which the Poetry Room lays claim. Boasting the voices of John Ashbery, Robert Frost, Vladimir Nabokov, and Ezra Pound, the Harvard collection of audio recordings is one of the most extensive in the nation. Through Davis’ new programs, the collection has become more accessible not only to the Harvard community but to the public as well...
Boehner, Rep. John • torture is accidentally referred to as "torture...
...which would be fairly standard ratings-chasing melodrama, except that prominent members of the GOP, like Karl Rove and former U.N. ambassador John Bolton, began signing on to versions of Beck's critique. At that point conservative heavy hitters, including former Solicitor General Theodore Olson and Clinton tormenter Ken Starr, spoke up in favor of Koh. The dispute soon spread to the blogosphere, and Republicans across the country took sides, calling one another "fruitcakes" and "windbags." (Read "Glenn Beck: The Fears of a Clown...