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...magnum opus, the 704-page epic Great Neck, centers around a group of friends who grow up in the prosperous Long Island town of the same name and go on to participate in the political opposition movements of the 1960s. Much of the novel is loosely based on the history of the country and of Cantor himself...
BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE. Michael Moore’s quintessential documentary on red-neck Americana and its political basis has turned more heads in curiosity than a gun show in Harvard Square would. Criticized for its self-indulgence and questionable objectivity, Bowling for Columbine is nonetheless a dazzling example of the power of politically charged cinema. Probably the most talked-about film of the year, Columbine effectively condenses nearly a decade of American history into a digestible, moving meditation on the sources of American gun violence. That’s no small feat. Bowling for Columbine screens...
Cantor’s undergraduate years at Harvard, which coincided with perhaps the most tumultuous period in the history of the University, are also reflected in the novel, as four of the six Great Neck kids move to Cambridge for college...
Myself a Harvard student from Great Neck, I had lunch with Cantor at the Hi-Rise Bread Company near Radcliffe Quad. He describes the café as a second home for his family, who lives just down the street...
Over lunch, Cantor discussed the relationship between the fiction and reality of Great Neck and about Cantor’s time at Harvard...