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Fall is finally upon us, and so is the new literary season, which means one thing: the authors are on tour. The slow months of summer are finally over and the Harvard Book Store, the Grolier Poetry Book Shop and WordsWorth Books, three of Harvard Square’s most established and respected bookstores, are getting back into the swing of things. Their calendars are brimming with the discussions, debates, multimedia presentations and plain and simple readings of passages from books that characterize author readings. And yes, refreshments will be served...
...outshone only by his abundantly apparent fascination and infatuation with the world. His newest novel, Fury is a first step in a new direction for him—shorter, fast-paced and more personal. Still, when Rushdie was in Harvard Square last Thursday reading from the novel for Wordsworth Books, he chose to obscure some of the more personal elements of the book (despite quipping that Fury is “entirely autobiographical—it shouldn’t really be called a novel”). Rushdie read a chapter that required his self-possessed English accent to deliver...
...reading and subsequent question-and-answer session, sponsored by Wordsworth Books, Rushdie read a chapter of his new novel, Fury, to a near-capacity crowd of nearly 500 who welcomed him with warm, prolonged applause...
Strangely, given his pursuit of ecstatic insight, he had no connection to the Romantic poets of his day, such as Coleridge and Wordsworth. But others he revered: John Milton, especially, whom he valued even above Dante. (He illustrated both.) Not only was Milton a republican and a sympathizer with regicides, but he also knew that the devil was beautiful, and so did Blake. Blake saw how insipid even Milton's descriptions of Paradise were compared with his visions of Hell, and pointed out that "the reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when...
...halls hang the faces of those men, and few women, who are our collective ancestors, who remind us that we have a duty to put our education from this august institution to good use. While many schools have abandoned requirements that students read the seminal works of Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth and other dead white males, Harvard requires one Shakespeare course and two pre-18th century classes of its English concentrators. The weekly Lowell House teas where students sip hot cider and tea and munch on scones, the formal dinners with professors and members of senior common rooms—remnant...