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...annual Miramax pre-oscar bash looked like a frothy success. Lots of celebs (Nicole Kidman! Salman Rushdie! Diane Sawyer!) and rivers of Piper-Heidsieck champagne. And there were skits as always--send-ups of the company's Oscar-nominated movies, including a spoof of In the Bedroom in which Dame Judi Dench dressed up like Sissy Spacek and chain-smoked...
John L. Ashbery ’49, Jamaica Kincaid and Salman Rushdie, three of the greatest writers of our time, shared the stage last Friday in a reading organized by The Harvard Advocate, with the support of their trustees, to raise funds for the magazine. These writers owe their prominence to their unique visions of the world, but, as artists, have invariably wrestled with common themes and challenges...
...Salman Rushdie...
...These are uncompromising times,” the narrator declares in Salman Rushdie’s reading of “At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers.” Uncompromising in its obsession with the free-market sale of humanity and our acceptance of intolerance and division in exchange for universalizing cash, the futurist society Rushdie portrays nonetheless laments “the moral decay of our post-millennial culture.” In place of the fictions, strange fantasies and alien desires that permeate their lives, Rushdie’s characters search for “home?...
John Ashbery, Jamaica Kincaid and Salman Rushdie...