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...article in the June 3 edition of The New Yorker has renewed questions surrounding last year's murder-suicide in Dunster House...
...Yorker article, written by former English Department faculty member and former Adams House non-resident tutor Melanie Thernstrom '87, traces Tadesse's mental state during her college years...
DIED. JOSEPH MITCHELL, 87, writer and journalist; in New York City. In prose both vivid and wry, Mitchell, a New Yorker regular for most of his career, chronicled the city's more unconventional citizens, from workers at the Fulton Fish Market to the Mohawk Indians who toiled as high-altitude construction crews. In 1992 he capped his career with the best-selling Up in the Old Hotel, a compilation of four previous books, including the memorable McSorley's Wonderful Saloon, with its cockeyed gallery of barkeeps, preachers and gypsies...
...speech ever, his not-a-dry-eye, "White House or home" abdication address, was the work of a Wall Street Journal columnist listed as Mark Helprin. Come again? The Helprin known by starving artists and threadbare assistant professors of English is, after all, an aesthete hatched at the New Yorker and renowned as the writer of eloquent, rarefied novels. And as a tormentor of reporters, who in his early years invented an ever changing, operatic past in which to luxuriate. One tall tale had his father refusing to let Helprin eat supper until, standing at attention, he had told...
Occasional verse for such magazines as the Atlantic and the New Yorker has earned Adair in recent years a coterie of fans (other poets notable among them). One dazzled critic (Eric Ormsby) has called her "the best American poet since Wallace Stevens." Adair is less gnomic than Stevens, more passionately personal; even on dark themes, her writing, like his, has the elegant fizz of brut champagne...