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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...
...Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is the author of See No Evil and, most recently, the novel Blow the House Down
...There’s the great Saul Bellow quote that “a writer is just a reader moved to emulation.” And so for me, the first step in writing my novel, was [to] read a ton of chick lit to get the voice...
...leader positions and a relocation out of Weld, where FIPpers were traditionally housed. Despite these challenges, Gong and Richards have expressed confidence in their plans for the future.The Society’s trend toward openness has already shown signs of success. Expansion in the name of openness will bring novel challenges for Woodbridge’s leaders, but if they succeed, it seems they will benefit not just internationals, but the entire Harvard community...
...actions truly have consequence. The fortunes that some of us will acquire ultimately will be squandered by others. Any position of status that we claim during life will be filled by others. Our great novel will only be cliff-noted or skimmed during reading period. Our famous names will be remembered only by eccentric aunts rebuilding family trees or equally eccentric history professors. Someday after our civilization is only ruins and records written in a dead language, parents will take their bored children to see the rubble of our great buildings. At that point all that will matter...