Word: reader
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...winner of the Pulitzer Prize for her debut short-story collection Interpreter of Maladies and her recent bestseller The Namesake. She sets her stories mainly in the Cambridge area and is one of literature’s most promising young talents. Her only competition might come from her co-reader Lan Samantha Chang, who has received lavish praise for her own debut work Hunger. 7 p.m. MIT, Rm. 10-250, 77 Mass. Ave., Cambridge...
...When a reader approaches a novel through a critical lens “we’re also honoring the novel’s difference from other discourses and other modes of knowing.” To put down Lolita and simply like it is not good enough...
Perhaps more worrisome, however, is the dissension that shows like “Queer Eye” have engendered within the gay community. In August, one Boston Globe reader lashed out against “Queer Eye” in a letter to the editor, stating that “The blond, nasty, catty, tacky, queeny thing does not represent me or my friends and is offensive. We need shows like “Will and Grace” with characters like Will, who has a real job, stability, and none of those so-called stereotypical behaviors...
...lover of tennis and an avid reader, Bradley was known as an outspoken advocate for patients and promoted the administering of oral agents to treat type 2 diabetes...
...culture, try the STYLE CITY books from Thames and Hudson ($24 each), which supply the scoop on?and gorgeous photos of?Barcelona, London, New York and Paris. Amsterdam and San Francisco are next. The guides' writers convey the "vibrant and idiosyncratic experience" of each city, and they take the reader off the beaten path. Craving chocolate in the Catalonian capital? Try Cacao Sampaka, a "beautifully spare shop interior full of dark chocolate-colored wood." Dare to venture beyond Manhattan? Fuel up at the Brooklyn Inn, where you can "argue about Kierkegaard" with regulars. But note how to get there before...