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...rave-ometer (which, come to think of it, is kind of a Whiteheadian idea), but after two novels--The Intuitionist and John Henry Days--he has been awarded a MacArthur "genius" grant, praised by John Updike and Jonathan Franzen and compared (by this magazine) to Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison. So it's a bit of a surprise to find that his third novel, Apex Hides the Hurt (Doubleday), is a rather modest affair, slender and conceptual in nature. Wouldn't this be the moment, tactically speaking, to kick out the jams with a massive, world-electrifying tome...
Patterson probably outsells Toni Morrison 10 books to 1, but his success comes at a price. He will never get respect from the literati. Most reviewers ignore him. In a culture that values high style over storytelling, pretty prose over popularity and pulse-pounding plots, he's at the extreme wrong end of the spectrum, and he knows it. And, yes, it irks him a little. "That's probably my biggest frustration," he admits. "There's something going on here that's significant, and it's not easy to do. If it was easy to do, a lot of people...
...followed with a last-second score to earn the victory and home ice for the ECAC quarterfinals, Clarkson responded to another late Harvard equalizer with a sudden-death game-winner of its own to prevail, 2-1, and push the playoff series to a decisive third game. Katie Morrison put home a rebound past senior netminder Ali Boe with 29 seconds left in the first overtime period to ensure a rubber match and dash the hopes of a sweep by host Harvard. “It was good up-and-down hockey,” Crimson coach Katey Stone said...
...Does one start with the polyrhythmic music of West Africa or the primordial tragedy of the blues? Should one start with Paul Dunbar or Toni Morrison?” These are the question Philip Atiba Goff ’99 asked himself eight years ago as he planned the first annual Harvard Black Arts Festival (BAF). And what did he come up with? In his vision, BAF was founded “to remind our artists of their points of origin and to share those origins with our audience.”His vision has proven to be an enduring...
...PART OF A GREAT GENERATION OF NOVELISTS--ROTH, UPDIKE, MORRISON. DO YOU FEEL AN AFFINITY WITH THEM? We all work off each other. And if we're each doing our work well, we create a kind of a surge that lifts everyone up. We're all lifted up by the community of us. Even in competition...