Word: novelists
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...improbable, imaginary conversation among American entertainers, you could do worse than the one that took place in midtown Manhattan earlier this month. The participants were the filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, known for smart, stylish and slightly silly movies like Fargo and O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and the novelist Cormac McCarthy, who won the National Book Award for All the Pretty Horses and the Pulitzer Prize for The Road. If it were a reality show it would be called Eccentric Genius Island...
Beijingers have a reputation in China for aloofness and a dry, self-mocking wit. According to Wang Shuo, China's most famous modern novelist, it's a sense of irony developed over centuries as a way of living with the fallout from the capital's endless factional power struggles. If so, the capital's 17 million residents are getting an excellent opportunity to test their famous detachment this week as Beijing hosts the 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. The get-together, held once every five years, sees senior cadres of the 70 million-strong Party gather...
President Faust’s two-day installation has been marked by its diversity, and especially significant at an institution such as Harvard, its modernity. Toni Morrison, arguably the quintessential modern novelist, spoke to a full house at Memorial Church yesterday. This afternoon, the Pan-African dance troupe will lead the robed procession of academics instead of the traditional bagpipe players. And, of course, Drew Gilpin Faust will be the first woman to speak from the steps of Memorial Church as president of the University...
Advice to a would-be novelist: write what you know. Tip for a first-time director: show what you've seen. Ben Affleck has been living in the tabloids for so long, it might seem as if he had been born there. But no, he's a Boston kid, and for his debut in the auteur sweepstakes, he wisely chose a Dennis Lehane suspense novel set in the down-and-dirty Boston suburb of Dorchester...
...Thursday, the German author of The Tin Drum and other novels walked through the streets of the old Hanseatic League town and met with Walesa in the evening. Residents crowded the route and many appeared anxious to welcome him back . One of those greeting him was Gdansk novelist Pawel Huelle, who praised the German writer for his intellectual contributions as well as for his frequent public statements that Germany had no claim on lands lost to Poland in the war. "For all his life Grass has been against erasing memory, erasing history and putting responsibility just on history and Adolf...