Word: kincaid
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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...
...remarks, James R. Atlas ’71, the President of the Harvard Advocate Board of Trustees and a former editor of The New York Times Magazine, singled out Rushdie and Kincaid as having to confront their status as outsiders of society peering in, if only to capture and expose this world in their work. But Ashbery, too, deals with themes of estrangement—less from society than from himself—by portraying consciousness as fractured by disparate and contrary forces. From this common world of outsiders and homelessness, journeying and eventual homecoming, the great art of these...
...Jamaica Kincaid...
...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...
...Bridges of Madison County" by Robert James Waller was a four-hanky production about the ill-fated love affair between Robert Kincaid and Francesca Johnson. Published ten years ago, it has been translated into 36 languages, with 12 million hardcover copies in print. Having spent over three years on the NYT bestseller list, it is now the No. 1 hardcover of all time, outselling "Gone with the Wind" and "Love Story." On April 23, John M. Hardy will publish "A Thousand Country Roads: An Epilogue to the Bridges of Madison County." Says his publisher, "For a decade, millions of readers...