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...Bellow, after he won the prize in 1976, the Nobel can be a bittersweet distinction. For William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, the prize was a swan song, a tribute to past masterpieces whose greatness their subsequent work did not approach. For others, it's just a very prestigious distraction. Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska, the 1996 laureate, complained that the prize destroyed her cherished privacy by turning her into an "official person." According to Jonathan Galassi, editor in chief of Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Gordimer's and Walcott's publisher), the prize can "inundate" a writer. "People," he says, "want...
...faded glory of Hollywood, which started everyone smoking in the first place. The Frolic Room, where the walls have emphysema, is smokeless. Traci Michaelz, a drummer with the Peppermint Creeps, goes outside to smoke and says, "This is all about control, dude." You notice that his green fingernail polish matches neither his feather boa nor his skirt, and you know things change only for the worse...
...Didn't Die: Business owners anted up special taxes to pave sidewalks and bury power lines, and banks came through with low-interest loans to polish up downtown's Last Picture Show facades. Austin cowboys rode in searching for a piece of hill country to call their...
...year-old resident of Warsaw, Poland, bitterly recalled the ill-fated, 10-month affair during a visit to Harvard Friday. Retired from his job as an economist for the Polish government, Kossinsky came to the Loeb Theater to meet with the cast, director and producers of a student rendition of Angels in America...
Before I could polish my theory on why the stock market went down so precipitously, the stock market went back up again. This sort of thing has happened to me before. I sometimes think most people go about their business with no consideration at all for those of us who have to provide theories for explaining absolutely everything...