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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...
...Jamaica Kincaid arrived in America when she was only 17, leaving behind her native country of Antigua, her family and her christened name, Elaine Potter Richardson. Kincaid’s heritage and poetic style, coupled with the heavily autobiographical content of her work, have established her greatness in contemporary writing. She preserves the outsider’s perspective on her homeland of Antigua and the equally foreign landscape of America, at times juxtaposing both to catch a glimpse of a universal human nature...
...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...