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SGAC, headquartered on Brattle Street above Wordsworth Bookstore, is the main project of Global Justice, a youth group supported by the Carr Foundation and Center for International Development at Harvard. The group was founded last February. Since then, the campaign has expanded to 188 high schools, colleges and graduate schools...
With over 400 pages of text and another 100 of notes, The Death of Comedy is broad in scope but lovingly detailed. The writing, which does not assume prior knowledge of the subject, is as engaging as it is rich with allusion to sources as diverse as Freud, Wordsworth, the musical My Fair Lady and Roberto Benini’s acclaimed movie Life is Beautiful. Whether or not the reader ultimately agrees with Segal’s arguments, The Death of Comedy remains an enjoyable read, a sweeping tome which tackles the topic of comedy with much gusto...
...Times bestseller list. What was originally supposed to be a little project culminating in 4,000 paperbacks has become a run of 70,000 hardcovers and a book tour. Oct. 16, he stopped by Harvard Square to sign books and paraphernalia—including the occasional chainsaw or two. Wordsworth Books hosted the event and, as a special treat for Campbell fans, joined up with the Brattle Theatre to combine the book signing with a special showing of Evil Dead 2, the acclaimed masterpiece of his troika...
...certainly more accessible than most Hollywood stars. After signing a slew of knick-knacks at the church from 7 to 9 p.m., “the party moved on to Wordsworth,” Kharbanda said. “He talked to everybody and was having a great time.” Quoting himself in Evil Dead, Campbell bid everyone farewell in the wee hours of the morning by saying, “Meet you again for the sequel...
...turmoil of Afghanistan. “Events now seem so important, so delicate.... Every so often, my publisher has to call and say, ‘Hey, you’re trying to sell this book,’” he explained at a reading for WordsWorth Books last week. As an inquisitive audience grilled him on Afghanistan, his time there and the lessons he learned, his humanity spilled out and he spoke as someone who lost a cherished friend in Massoud. He discussed the “patchwork quilt of control” in Afghanistan...