Word: novelists
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Oddly, Gray Grantham, the male half of Grisham's protagonist couple, is an investigative reporter for the Washington Post and, relatively speaking, one of the good guys. This is a blow; journalists like to consider themselves outcasts from decent society, and novelist Grisham is telling them that their reading on the nation's revulsion meter is insignificant. Grantham's fellow fugitive and lady love is Darby Shaw, a beautiful law student who, in the finest tradition of 19th century fiction, is saved from a life of litigation when she drops out of law school perilously close to the bar exam...
...fair, there are many gems of wisdom amidst the rubble. Novelist McDermott speaks poignantly of the expectations of women writers who are also mothers, and writer Marge Piercy speaks of the writer's responsibilities to public life. Satirist Alison Lurie has an intelligent and balanced view of the price of feminist separatism, and novelist Anne Lamott draws surprising connections between women's literature and culture and therapy. And nanogenarian poet Janet Lewis has fabulous insights into women's history. As she says, "the funny thing about women is that there have always been startling and tremendous women all along, regardless...
Reflections on Hebrew Literature: Past and Present (in Hebrew)--by Aharon Appelfeld, novelist, and professor of modern Hebrew literature, Ben Gurion University. Sever Hall, room 206, 4 p.m. Tuesday...
...player has come close to his consistency in high-pressure circumstances. Of the half a dozen biggest events on the men's tour -- the four Grand Slams, the tour finale and the Lipton International in Key Biscayne, Fla. -- Courier won three and made the finals of two others. Says novelist Eliot Berry, whose book about the past two years on the tennis circuit, Tough Draw, will be published in August: "Tennis is in significant part a game of intimidation. Although Courier is well behaved, his physical and mental toughness make him very intimidating. He is probably the strongest...
Henry Louis Gates Jr., chair of theAfro-American Studies Department, delivered themain address. Gates concentrated on the career ofthe essayist and novelist James Baldwin. Accordingto Gates, Baldwin's work has continued relevanceto the issues of race relations King dealt with...