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...movie. If she isn’t already, Viswanathan will become very famous, very soon. And when Warner puts the gas on her book’s marketing campaign next week, she will join the swelling/swollen ranks of young Ivy-bred writers who have traded their ability to lead normal undergraduate lives for literary celebrity...
...rediscovery is the latest in a line of literary good deeds by the Dalkey Archive Press, which is becoming a major force on the global literary scene. Based in Normal, Illinois, the nonprofit publishing house has been unearthing lost treasures for two decades. Founded by American critic John O'Brien, the Dalkey Archive takes its name from a 1964 novel of that title by the late, hard-drinking Irish writer Flann O'Brien (no kin), one of the firm's early reprints. The surviving O'Brien and his team have since uncovered more than 300 new and out-of-print...
...wherever he wanted, and "could order by telephone, sipping his morning tea in bed, the various products of the whole earth, in such quantity as he might see fit, and reasonably expect their early delivery upon his doorstep." Not only that, Keynes' Londoner "regarded this state of affairs as normal, certain, and permanent, except in the direction of further improvement." It was not to be. World War I brought the modern world's first great era of globalization to a jarring halt; trade atrophied, and legislation like the Smoot-Hawley tariffs passed by the U.S. Congress in 1930 gave...
...school system increases its emphasis on standardized test results. CityStep members teach dance skills and promote self-confidence in fifth through seventh grade classes for two 45-minute blocks each week at participating schools. However, some CPS officials noted that problems can arise when programs cut into the normal school day. They said that the number of elementary schools applying to host the program has dropped from seven or eight to two or three within the last few years. “It’s not that people don’t appreciate or understand the importance of this...
...something that I would never take back.” Kaplan has adapted to the Harvard lifestyle. After years of rising at the crack of dawn she has learned to sleep until right before an 11 a.m. meeting. Both young veterans have managed to become, more or less, normal students...