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...several members of its advising system. Ho was murdered in May 1995 by Sinedu Tadesse '96, her Dunster House roommate. Tadesse hanged herself in their bathroom the day of the murder. Last summer, Melanie Thernstrom '87, a former Adams House non-resident tutor, enlarged her controversial 1995 New Yorker article and published a book about the incident, charging Harvard with allowing troubled students to fall through the cracks. When the book appeared, the University vigorously denied its assertions. Now Harvard is again on the defensive...
Born in Shillington, Penn. in 1932, Updike began submitting his work to national magazines, including the New Yorker, in high school. At Harvard, he wrote for the Harvard Lampoon...
Returning to the U.S., Updike took a position as a reporter for the New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" section...
...York Observer ran a piece on the exorbitant book contracts being floated in New York City. A million dollars is nothing, the Observer trumpeted. If you weren't getting a million dollars for your book, you were probably being hoodwinked. James Atlas, writing in The New Yorker a couple of weeks ago, describes how the literary scene has become infatuated with cash lately. The only things writers can talk about at cocktail parties are stock options and mutual funds. His writer friends are getting richer and richer. And he understands them. It would be nice to be a rich writer...
...first printing of 400,000 copies. And Paradise was controversial even before it went on sale. Jump-the-gun reviews have ranged from the splenetic ("a clunky, leaden novel"--the New York Times) to the ecstatic ("the strangest and most original book that Morrison has written"--the New Yorker). Everyone who cares about contemporary fiction will doubtless be talking about Paradise, and not only because of the renown of its author. To read the novel is to be pulled into a passionate, contentious and sometimes violent world and to confront questions as old as human civilization itself...