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...with strangers. On her return, Morvern discovers on her computer screen her lover's final gift, a novel he'd completed before killing himself, along with the farewell message, "I wrote it for you." Morvern takes him literally, typing in her own name as author and posting the manuscript to a publisher. She then empties the boyfriend's bank account, chops him up, buries the pieces on a hillside and flees with Lanna in search of some thrills in Spain. What drives Morvern's impulsively bloody behavior? Warner's novel offered no convenient explanations, and Ramsay wisely resisted the temptation...
Some people would call it a charmed life anyway. Chabon has been a published novelist almost from the moment he completed the graduate writing program at the University of California at Irvine. The manuscript he produced for his master's degree was passed along by his thesis adviser to an agent. Eventually it became The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, the 1988 book that got him noticed immediately as a young writer on the rise. "I've been very lucky all my life," he says. "You can't help but feel that you don't deserve it. You're an impostor, impersonating...
Chabon's rise stalled for a while as he spent nearly five years on an ever enlarging but never completed novel. In time he put the ballooning manuscript aside and started a new novel about a pot-smoking college professor with his own long-unfinished novel. Wonder Boys was a wry 1995 book that became a witty movie last year with Michael Douglas and Robert Downey Jr. But it was Kavalier & Clay that made the superabundance of Chabon's gifts superapparent. The story of two boys who invent a Nazi-bashing comic-book hero during World...
...unfold in parallel: a 5th century Roman sophisticate faces the fall of his empire; a Renaissance man stares down the Black Death; and a French classicist watches as his country is overrun by the Germans in World War II. The thread connecting these three men is an ancient philosophical manuscript that each man encounters, but the real bond among them is that they face a common paradox. Civilization has made them men of learning, but in order to save it they must leave their studies and become men of action. "Right action is a pale material reflection of the divine...
Part of the map collection will be on display in Pusey Library during commencement. Also on display from Knafel’s collection is a manuscript that contains the first reference to “Harvard Colledge” in a published document. The display is only the latest way Knafel’s contributions have bolstered the University...