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...night. Pamela Thomas '85 presented a passage from James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues," for which she received the distinction of second place. The judges took 40 minutes to reach their decision, and announced that each of the contestants had an advocate in the deliberations. Nicole Galland, who presented LeGuin's "The Ones Who Walk from Omelas"; Joseph Krailik, who chose Eliot's "Sweeney Agonistes: Fragment of an Agon"; Randloph McGrorty, who delivered Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"; Philip Resnik, who recited Rilke's "Duino Elegies"; and Jeffrey Rosen, who enacted Cicero...
...young Black boy run over by a car full of drunken white men, and how this death affected the boy's family, and the next generation, and their feelings about white men. The judges' recognition of more than traditional material and contestants (I include the selection from Ursula LeGuin and the unusual performance of Eliot) deserves The Crimson's attention, beyond the single picture. I think an accompanying article, including an announcement of both the first and second prizewinners and list of finalists, would have been more appropriate coverage for a story of note to the student body...
...these 20 stories is enormously concentrated: as Tyler writes in her introduction, "I like to imagine that if you set this book on a table, it would almost bounce, it would almost shout." Yet save for a pair of remarkably bizarre, tongue-in-cheek stories by Ursula K. LeGuin, these pages detail familiar happenings--walking the dog, vacations, and family reunions are intercut with the starker tragedies of imprisonment, alcoholism, death at birth, and death at long last...
Four is a small banquet, but readers can choose for themselves how many stories they wish to return to, and the menu is certainly extensive. Established masters Updike, Carver, Wright Morris, and LeGuin are joined by rising talents like Laurie Colwin and Bobbie Ann Mason, as well as a host of freshman including, curiously, James Bond...
...shown by the quality of the critical essays just released under the appropriate title Arthur C. Clarke. The book is the third in a series of collected critiques on science fiction authors, which has arleady covered Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein; books on Ray Bradbury and Ursula K. LeGuin are in preparation. For all its amateur wordiness, the book reflects the vitality of this literary genre today. While mainstream short stories can scarcely find a market, sci-fi anthologies have become so numerous that it's difficult to think of new names for them, as Clarke himself points...