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...Tolstoy, who peopled their worlds like gods, is denied to 20th century writers who must cope with ironies and layers of deconstruction (one strategy is to distance the reader from the hero and keep him a mystery, as F. Scott Fitzgerald did in The Great Gatsby). So pity Mona Simpson, a talented young novelist (Anywhere but Here) whose new book, A Regular Guy (Knopf; 372 pages; $25), begins with this sentence: "He was a man too busy to flush toilets." Does any superman survive that? It's not that this is a scatological work or a racy read about...
...University Marshal Samuel P. Huntington, Kerry $250 Weatherhead University Professor Rosabeth Kanter, Class of 1960 Kerry $250 Prof. of Business Administration David R. Mittelman, Bond Manager, Weld $1000 Harvard Management Matthew T. Ozug '00, Kerry $225 Undergraduate Hal S. Scott, Nomura Professor of Weld $500 International Financial Systems Mona Serageldin, Adjunct Weld $250 Professor of Urban Planning Howard H. Stevenson, Sarofim-Rock Weld $1000 Professor of Business Administration Source: Federal Election Commision
...Mona Abraham...
...author of two novels, most recently Mona in the Promised Land. Her short stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, and the 1988 and 1995 editions of Best American Short Stories...
There are the career books: Women Lawyers, by Mona Harrington, and the Princeton Review's Guide to Careers. It has always comforted me to read other people's advice, even when (as in the guide), it entails filling out quizzes and saying that my work style and interests are "blue" and "green" (I don't quite understand it either). At least then I can try to convince myself that I'm not completely directionless in life...