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...Robinson complemented Holsey after coming off the bench early in the first half, adding 13 points and a pair of clutch free throws late in the second half. Franklin tossed in two three-pointers and senior guard Katie Murphy added two more. Consistent three-point shooting—the Crimson shot 35 percent for the game—opened up the inside for Harvard’s frontcourt...
This month, Marilynne Robinson will publish Gilead (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 247 pages), her second novel, 23 years after publishing her first. That book, Housekeeping, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and won the PEN/Hemingway Award. It is a mainstay of book clubs and lists of the best novels of the 20th century. The anticipation of Robinson's follow-up has been urgent, loud and public. In 2001 even her pastor weighed in. "She seems not to be applying herself to using that gift as much as I hope she would," the Rev. Bruce Fischer told a local newspaper...
...interval had nothing to do with indolence and everything to do with rigor, and Robinson, 60, says she feels little need to apologize for it. "I have always been doing things that felt very necessary from the point of view of the integrity of my work," she says, with only the slightest hint of irritation. "So other people will just have to look out for themselves...
...things were prompted by the dishonesty and vacuity she sensed in virtually every level of public discourse. "I actually became struck by the fact that people very routinely talk about major writers, historical figures, episodes in history on the basis of what are very, very banal clichs," says Robinson, who lives in Iowa City, Iowa, and has taught at the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop since 1991. "My impatience with that became so marked that I felt as if I couldn't say anything true until I had essentially re-educated myself." Which she did by reviewing virtually...
...Laura [Robinson] is a smart player and actually has taken a step in the right direction this year,” Delaney-Smith says. “I’m going to take it a day at a time. Laura adds a level of poise to this team that, at times, we need. And Lindsay Hallion, for a freshman, I think blew us away yesterday. She was tremendous in that scrimmage. Poised, smart, did a great...