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...Part memoir, part literary tutorial, the book begins with his recollections of Derek Walcott, a fellow Nobelist and West Indian writer whose first volume of poems was published in 1948. Naipaul came across it in 1955, while working part-time on a BBC radio program called Caribbean Voices. Although Naipaul says he broadcast everything Walcott submitted to the show, he also claims to have done so believing that "the first flush" of Walcott's inspiration had gone, and that the poet "was now marking time." Walcott's borrowing of Western European literary forms is peevishly dismissed as "falsifying...
...conducts a shameful hatchet job on his late benefactor's reputation, depicting him as the plodding ham of English drawing-room novelists and wondering if their friendship lasted "because I had not examined his work." Sam Selvon he boasts of having insulted face-to-face during a BBC radio interview, by referring to one of Selvon's books as "wretched." And Nirad Chaudhuri, in perhaps the least acerbic assessment, is dismissed as a pedant better suited to academia...
...congratulate anyone when you see it.' MARCUS LUTTRELL, the sole surviving member of a Navy seal squad caught in a firefight with the Taliban. On Oct. 22, President Bush awarded the Medal of Honor to the family of Lieut. Michael Murphy, who gave his life to make a radio call for help for his team...
MARCUS LUTTRELL (right), the sole surviving member of a Navy SEAL squad caught in a firefight with the Taliban; on Oct. 22, President George W. Bush awarded the Medal of Honor to the family of Lieut. Michael Murphy, who gave his life to make a radio call for help for his team...
...Coast maintain the smartest evacuation packs you will find anywhere: ruthlessly compact, wildly creative. They keep documents sealed in floatable boxes; they have coffee tables that turn into trunks and garbage cans that turn into latrines; they have learned that the only thing more valuable than a hand-crank radio is a hand-crank...