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Plympton Street now has another landmark—Frank, Mark & Pauline Kramer Square. Harvard Book Store, a destination for famous authors such as Stephen King and Al Gore ’69, drew a crowd of its own when the intersection of Mass. Ave. and Plympton Street on which it stands was rechristened in honor of the store’s founding family. The signpost identifying Frank, Mark & Pauline Kramer Square, as it is now officially known, was unveiled Saturday morning. Carole Horne, the store’s general manager, said the staff decided to celebrate the store?...
...discussed that evening. “The short story is alive, but it isn’t what I’d call well.” King, the editor of “The Best American Short Stories 2007,” was joined at the Harvard Book Store event by Heidi Pitlor, the series editor, and contributing authors Jim Shepard, Karen Russell, and Richard Russo to discuss the state of short fiction. NO MORE ‘ASS IN THE AIR’ King said his decision to edit the collection was driven by a desire to reconnect...
...date of his winning the Nobel Prize in Literature. “The art of the novel is that in writing, you’re talking about yourself while making people believe you’re talking about herself, himself.” During the Harvard Book Store event, Pamuk used excerpts from “Other Colors,” a new collection of “essays and a story” he has written over the last 30 years, as a jumping-off point for a freewheeling discussion of precocious melancholy, the calling to literature...
Price of a diamond-studded bracelet stolen from the Harry Winston store in Paris on Oct.5 in one of the largest jewelry heists ever, with more than $28.4 million in baubles swiped...
...they are for tracking library books. Vets have been implanting RFID chips in pets for years, and there's a NASDAQ-traded company called VeriChip that manufactures RFID chips specifically for use in human beings, the idea being that the chips would provide a quick and reliable way to store and retrieve emergency medical information; VeriChip is also marketed in South America as a way to track kidnap victims. But it's not hard to imagine more Orwellian scenarios, in which prison inmates or even immigrants would be tagged with RFID implants to make it easier for the government...