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...Sophomore Advising, and a Ph.D. candidate. Studying primate biology as an undergraduate at Columbia University, Jenkins never expected to end up where he is today. But after contracting malaria during a research trip to Kenya, Jenkins decided to switch to literature to feed his obsession with the Victorian novel. Though the two topics seem unrelated, Jenkins sees a clear connection. “In both disciplines, you are searching for great significance in the tiniest details, great meaning in minute actions and things,” he says...
...previously long-listed for the Booker Prize in 2005, for her novel Beyond Black...
British novelist Hilary Mantel snapped up the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction on Oct. 6 for her novel Wolf Hall, a fictionalization of the life of Thomas Cromwell, adviser to Henry VIII, during the King's attempts to produce a male heir to his throne. Mantel's win was not a surprise; bookmakers considered Wolf Hall the heaviest favorite in years. Winning the Booker Prize carries with it a ?50,000 prize and historically catapults the title to the top of best-seller lists worldwide. This is Mantel's first time winning the award, which is given annually...
...Mantel's writing is so exact and brilliant that, in itself, it seems an act of survival, even redemption." - Joan Acocella, The New Yorker critic, reviewing Mantel's 2006 novel A Place of Greater Safety...
...falsified people, places and products. This artificial reality leads people to expect perfection from themselves and the world in an impossible way, she says. "When writers take a news item or real event and considerably embellish it, they are required to alert readers by calling the work fiction, a novel or a story based on dramatized facts. Why should it be any different for photographs?" Boyer asks. "Rules on food-labeling let consumers know the origins of the contents and the presence of things like additives and preservatives. What's wrong with ... informing them when photographs have also been modified...