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...relation between those who create art and those who critique it is notoriously fraught, something that was evident quickly to the standing-room only crowd in Sever Hall last night that watched novelist Jonathan Franzen face English professor James Wood, who has been one of his toughest critics. Wood, who is also a staff writer for The New Yorker, is noted for his censure of the postmodern social novel, which he termed the “contemporary American novel in its big triumphalist form” in a 2001 review of Franzen’s novel...
Several years ago, Mallory contacted Leslie A. Morris, Harvard’s curator of modern books and manuscripts, to inquire about the University’s interest in purchasing the archive, which provides insight into the life of the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, journalist, and playwright who died last November...
STEPHEN KING, award-winning, bestselling novelist...
...Contemporary Iraqi Film” series, a group of movies from Iraq shown in CGIS-S last Thursday through Saturday. Films included several documentaries, as well as the winning entries from Baghdad’s First International Iraq Short Film Festival in 2005. The movies were introduced by poet, novelist, and filmmaker Sinan Antoon, who received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 2006. The series opened with Antoon’s film “About Baghdad,” a documentary on the effect that decades of oppression, war, sanctions, and occupation have had on the capital city. After...
...stocking up in bookstores on Washington's Dupont Circle. (Though a man of the left, Brown has broad tastes: a bathroom in his house contains a well-thumbed copy of Moral Judgment, by James Q. Wilson, a favorite of U.S. conservatives.) In private, he can be delightful company. Australian novelist Kathy Lette says "there's a loving, frivolous side of him," and describes a surprise party Brown organized for his wife Sarah that started with Lette and other female friends including J.K. Rowling hiding, giggling, behind Downing Street's formal furnishings. But as a scion of his nation's Calvinist...