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Reading in the Norton Lecture Hall of Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum marked a triumphal homecoming for John Ashbery. A contributor and member of the executive board of The Harvard Advocate, Ashbery composed one of his best-known poems, “Some Trees,” while still an undergraduate. Since his graduation and his selection as Class Poet, Ashbery has won nearly every prestigious poetry award in the nation, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry for his 1975 volume Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror...
...Sullivan, takes the number 7 spot on the 3/17 NYT nonfiction list after 16 weeks. On March 19, Ecco/HarperCollins) will publish a new paperback edition of "The Essential Lewis and Clark," edited by Lanny Jones, who has reported, written and edited at LIFE, TIME, MONEY, and PEOPLE. In September, Norton will publish "In the Image," the first novel by former TIME intern Dara Horn. Her publisher calls the book "an extraordinary first novel illuminated by spiritual exploration, one that remembers 'a language, a literature, a held hand, an entire world lived and breathed in the image of God.' " Horn received...
...dream: 10 pages of open-ended questions that begged for gently sarcastic rejoinders. What types of people would you choose NOT to have with you on “Survivor”? Well, those likely to beat me. What would you take with you to the remote location? My Norton Anthology of Poetry: thin pages, Puritan poets excellent for starting fires. What would you NOT do for a million dollars? Cheer for the Yankees...
Crafty production companies get around Harvard’s restrictions by filming from Harvard Square, so viewers can see the perimeter of the Yard framed by wrought-iron bars. Sometimes they scurry outside the Ivy League. A popular Harvard lookalike is Wheaton College in Norton, Mass. Both Soul Man, the story of a first-year Harvard Law School student desperate to secure a scholarship for black students, and the yet-to-be-released Prozac Nation were partly filmed there. With Honors was filmed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at the Boston Athenaeum. Legally Blonde, starring Reese...
...letter to Matthiessen from T. S. Eliot, Class of 1910, is a reply to a dinner invitation. Matthiessen knew Eliot when he was Norton professor of poetry—and an Eliot House resident—in 1932-3 and in 1935 Matthiessen wrote the first critical book on Eliot...