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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...
...someone who’s been there, I can assure the Globe reader that fighting to fit into an externally dictated role is far too tiring. So order up an amaretto sour, buy those low-riding jeans (you know they make your ass look hot) and remember the next time you hear Kylie Minogue that sometimes a foot just wants to tap. As for the more flamboyant gays, don’t be so quick to judge them. One of these days, you just may find yourself waking up next to a boy wearing chipped black nail polish...
...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...