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...American Literature and Language, Jamaica Kincaid. At Harvard, Iweala was a Mellon Mays Scholar, and his thesis won a Hoopes Prize. To his surprise, the thesis turned into a novel after Kincaid gave the manuscript to her literary agent. As Iweala explains in a phone interview, he was first struck by the stories of child soldiers during his senior year in high school when he read an article about Sierra Leone’s conflicts, which inspired a short story. In 2002, as president of the Harvard African Students Association, he invited China Keitetsi, a former member of the National...
...children of Harry Potter - the readers of his books, the viewers of his movies - are growing up with him. Many, perhaps millions of them were six or eight when the first wallop of Harrymania struck the U.S. in the summer of 1999. They are tweeners or a little older now, within cracking-voice shouting distance of the young wizard?s 16 years - in the sixth book, The Half-Blood Prince, published this summer - or 14 years, his age in the new movie version of the fourth installment, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire...
...much, because I thought “Pride and Prejudice” was for girls. I took the script to the pub and by about page 60, I was weeping into my pint of lager. I kind of got funny looks from the blokes at the bar. THC: What struck you about Keira Knightley that connected her to this quintessential Jane Austen heroine in your mind? JW: At first I thought Keira would be too beautiful to play Elizabeth Bennett. It’s the story of a fairly plain girl who gets a catch because of the liveliness...
Representatives from both sides expressed satisfaction with the deal struck last night...
...These star-struck, amateur ramblings guaranteed that he would never juice any of the girls present in the room that night, but c’est la vie. Meanwhile, Schonberger squirmed uncomfortably in the corner, dreaming of keg stands while wondering if he could reach the road from the fourth floor window...