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...Paul Theroux’s memoir of his friendship with V.S. Naipaul, Naipaul hisses a typically vain slur at the Nobel Prize committee, after it has failed yet again to recognize the work of the objectively superior writer??V.S. Naipaul. “The Nobel committee are doing it again, as they do every year,” says Naipaul. “Pissing on literature. Pissing from a great height...
...home in England to award him the million-dollar annual prize, “for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories.” Speculation immediately brewed over whether the citation meant to acclaim the writer??s anti-Muslim travelogues, or his novels and stories, which have dealt with colonial subjects in times of indigence, pathos and humor. Naipaul’s most recent travel book, Beyond Belief, detailed how nations that had converted to the Muslim faith—and suppressed their own traditions?...
...precisely the “realities of Harvard life,” to use Smith’s phrase, that we describe on our tours. While tour guides are encouraged to share personal stories, however, they are discouraged from editorializing about College policies. Perhaps to the writer??s surprise, some students enjoy Core classes, have positive experiences with TFs and appreciate the school’s decision not to keep libraries open round the clock. Regardless, it is not a tour guide’s role to offer opinions on policies about which there are a diversity...
Five drinks every time a writer??s roommate or blockmate is the only source for a major investigative story...
...fact, he will have an extra two. In the fall he plans to continue to refine his collection while completing a two-year MFA program at the Iowa Writer??s Workshop, “a big writers community stuck out in the cornfields with nothing to do but drink in the two bars there and write...