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...wanted to be a little more invested in.” Damon was an understudy in one of Wheeler’s productions at the A.R.T. before going on to act in his student production of Sam Shepard’s “Icarus’s Mother...
...have found an answer to the last question when he took the Chagall painting—which had once belonged to his beloved mother. Behind the story of the stolen Chagall painting lies the story of Ben’s family, of Soviet Russia, of Jewish folklore, and, finally, of death, birth and rebirth...
...telling these stories, Horn—who received a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Harvard this year—draws heavily on the books that populate her novel, moving freely from text to text. Ben’s narrative interweaves with the children’s books that his mother wrote, with the old Yiddish authors who knew his grandfather in Russia, with funeral songs and folk tales and his father’s letters from Vietnam. There are real-life sources propping up Horn’s novel as well: the central art-theft story is ripped from...
...immigration.” On the relevance of his research, Putnam said, “I want to do work that speaks to the concerns of ordinary people in both Britain and America. It’s like writing your senior thesis on something you can explain to your mother...
...mother would agree. When she found out I was dating a state school graduate, she told me, “You could’ve at least slept with a Harvard student...