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...hope you don't explode. That's Larry's method of coping. In Stuhlberg's precise embodiment, Larry accepts all tribulations with a mouth pressed into pruny silence, as if he had bitten into something rancid but doesn't want to be seen spitting it out. Wouldn't matter if he did: no one gives him a moment to articulate the psychic pains he harbors. (Read "Baffled After Seeing...
...following. That experience, perhaps more than any other single one in his life, would resonate throughout his fiction. After disbanding the infrarealists, Bolaño drifted into further obscurity in Europe, working odd jobs and writing poetry sporadically into his early 40s. This early period would become the subject matter for “The Savage Detectives,” his first long novel. More sensitive to the need for a more substantial living through literature after the birth of his first son, Bolaño began writing fiction full-time.“The Skating Rink?...
...developments after graduating from college?Carlin Wing: After college I spent some time playing on the professional squash tour. When I started my graduate studies at CalArts I no longer had time to train and compete, but the sport began to make its way into my artwork as subject matter. THC: What made you participate in the Open Art Performance Festival in Beijing this fall?CW: When I was young, I wanted more than anything to be in the Olympics. Of course squash wasn’t an Olympic sport then and it isn?...
...central problem, explains Doug Brooks, president of the International Peace Operations Association, a trade association, is "the tendency of the U.S. government to go for the lowest bidder no matter what, and the result is that even the better companies end up cutting their contracts to the bones, and as a result these problems are more frequent than you'd like." Although currently there is no law requiring the government to take the lowest bidder - though there is draft legislation to make it so - bureaucrats tend to favor the low bids so as to avoid being called up to Capitol...
...report in the Daily Telegraph and South Africa's response only serve to keep in the public sphere that which is a very private matter. Semenya, at least, seems to be displaying the same gritty fortitude that propelled her to victory in Berlin. When asked by South African magazine You about the gender issue, she reportedly said: "I see it all as a joke, it doesn't upset me. God made me the way I am and I accept myself. I am who I am and I'm proud of myself. I don't want to talk about the tests...