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...Nantucket's east-most point is the town of Siasconset (called 'Sconset by all the locals). This is really a small town within the larger town of Nantucket. Artists and literati are often seen here. Street painters can also be spotted out in front of the bookstore or around the small post office which marks the way to the beach...
However, it seems that one member of the literati is a little behind on the reading list. When a Crimson reporter asked this person about Morrison's honor, she got the following response...
This, after all, is my final shot at becoming a true-blue. Harvard literati. (I just won't get another chance to name-drop Joseph Andrews and Walker Evans without someone throwing a brick at my head, will I? And most frighteningly of all, somewhere in the back of my mind, the thesis clock has started to tick--freedom will soon come crashing to an end, and long nights of genuine scholarship await. Sometime between now and unemployment, I've got to squeeze in some education...
...fair, novels on the AIDS epidemic, necessarily, are tricky creatures. The impact of the disease has been as complex as finding a cure, and to capture somehow these complexities with words must be one of the most formidable tasks available to the contemorary literati. And, like finding a cure, the writing of the AIDS novel, or novels, will be marked by marry wrong turns, trial, error, frustrations, advances, despair and hope. Gone Tomorrow, though interesting in its premise and ambitious in its multi-oriented goal, seems like an experiment that leads to no major breakthrough. Though ultimately unsuccessful, it remains...
LONG BEFORE THE LITERATI INVENTED Magic Realism, the people who worked in movie studios were living it. On back lots all over the world, the harshly practical has always confronted the giddily romantic. In his faux documentary INTERVISTA (Interview), Federico Fellini imagines a fictional Japanese television crew interviewing him as he shoots an equally fictive movie version of Kafka's Amerika. The result is not so much a self-portrait as a sentimental-satirical vision of back-lot life, a jazzy juxtaposition of past and present, star egos and bit-player frustrations, epic pretensions and commercial hackery...