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JILL McCORKLE. McCorkle, whose writing has been compared to the best of Truman Capote and Flannery O’Connor, will read from her new book Creatures of Habit, a collection of 12 interconnected short stories set in North Carolina. Taken together, the stories mimic the arc of a single person’s life. The title refers to two types of characters: animals with human qualities and humans with animal qualities, which McCorkle uses to expose subtle human failures and victories. Monday, April 28 at 7 p.m. Free. Wordsworth Books, 30 Brattle Street...
...ATHENS, GREECE: Antiwar protesters wrapped a statue of U.S. President Harry Truman in brown paper and marked it: "Return to sender...
...Truman Foundation allows up to four college juniors to be nominated from any four-year institution in the United States...
...procedure for applying for the award at Harvard requires students to submit the complete Truman Scholarship application to the Office of Career Services in November. A committee then narrows down the pool and conducts interviews before choosing its four nominees...
...recipients will attend an awards ceremony at the Truman Library in Missouri...