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...economics concentrator in Eliot House, Vikram Viswanathan ’06 sold contracts yesterday for $3.80, $5.50, and $7.50. When the price of a contract rose to $8.50 around 9:30 p.m, he wrote in an e-mail, “I’m getting wrecked...
...Nonfiction 1. "Team of Rivals" Doris Kearns Goodwin 2. "Schooling America" Patricia Graham 3. "Moral Consequences of Economic Growth" Benjamin Friedman 4. "Year of Magical Thinking" Joan Didion 5. "Chosen" Jerome Karabel 6. "The Truth with Jokes" Al Franken 7. "Guynd: a Scottish Journal" Belinda Rathbone 8. "Two Lives" Vikram Seth 9. "Are Men Necessary?" Maureen Dowd 10. "Shame of the Nation" Jonathan Kozol
...Lives, Vikram Seth...
...Truth Is as Beautiful as Fiction Most writers are happy to achieve success in a single format, but such a career would bore gifted polymath Vikram Seth. The Indian-born author has already delighted readers with poetry, translations of Chinese verse, a book of travels through Tibet, a libretto and the monumental novel A Suitable Boy. This fall, Seth releases his latest foray into a new genre: a memoir titled Two Lives, which tells the true story of how his Indian granduncle Shanti fell in love with and married a Jewish-German woman after World War II. The book will...
...Vikram Seth had a problem. The Calcutta-born, London-based author had exploded onto the literary scene in 1986 with The Golden Gate, a novel in verse set in California. His 1993 Indian saga A Suitable Boy - at nearly 1,400 pages the longest work of fiction in English since the 18th century - sold a million copies in Britain alone. Then came some poems, an opera libretto and ? nothing. "You don't know exactly what to write about next," Seth's mother, visiting from India, told him in 1994. "Why don't you write about him?" She was referring...