Word: novelists
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...very good at going to press conferences and nodding. I'd figure it out when I got back to the office. Charts and numbers. I've never been great with facts, ever, my whole life. For a journalist, that's not a very good trait. As a novelist, it's fine because you just make it all up and so when I found fiction, I thought, oh, OK. This is more me. I can just make...
...story depicts an American novelist, Clifford Bradshaw (Zachary B.S. Sniderman ’09), and his doomed love affair with Sally Bowles, one of the main dancers at Berlin’s Kit Kat Klub, where the party never stops and the women wear as little as possible. Most of the first act takes place here, but a concurrent subplot involves an equally doomed love affair between Bradshaw’s landlord Fräulein Schneider, played by Carolyn A. McCandlish ’07, and her tenant, Herr Schultz (Quincy Ellis...
...photo of a man holding a gun. While these images may seem purely dark, the writers who created them explained they are the source of humor as well as melacholy in a Harvard panel entitled “Dreams, Sex, Dust: Three Vietnamese American Writers.” Novelist Gish Jen ’77 moderated the April 12 event together with Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African and African American Studies Werner Sollors. Essayist Andrew Lam, performance artist Lan Tran, and poet Truong Tran all presented readings to the audience gathered in Ticknor Lounge. Sollors provided...
...movies. He gets dumped, fired, and almost wins the lottery—almost. Despite its rather clichéd opening, “Everything’s Gone Green” is a strong first showing by novice screenwriter Douglas Coupland, who has a long history as a novelist, and who popularized the term ‘Generation X.’ The film, like many before it, follows a modern young loner as he struggles to find meaning and direction in life as everything around him swirls dangerously out of control. Director Paul Fox strikes an unexpected level...
When the acclaimed novelist Gary Shteyngart appeared at the Brattle Theatre for a freewheeling discussion on Monday, the topics ranged from being paid in cheese for his first writing assignment to avoiding the sophomore slump to emigrating from the Soviet Union. He also read from his second novel, “Absurdistan,” which he called “the story of a very large man who destroys a very small country.” In “Absurdistan,” which was named one of the ten best books of the year...