Books
Bezmozgis Offers Uninspired Take on Immigrant Experience
For a few decades in the middle of the last century, American fiction featured a strong Jewish voice, world-weary yet wisecracking, in which unconcern—even disgust—toward the world coexisted with fascination with its linguistic and philosophical possibilities. With his existential emphasis, the Jew became the everyman; though the Jewish immigrant now rarely appears as a novelistic protagonist, a great nostalgia for his brand of schmerz persists.
Novelist Harding Recalls Fighting to Write
“If I wanted to write,” Harding said, “I had to fight for it. So I just couldn’t be precious. I couldn’t flip my scarf and say, ‘The muse didn’t show up today.’ No ... I’m always writing in my brain.”
Pulitizer Prize winner Paul Harding speaks about writing
Pulitzer Prize winner and former Expos preceptor Paul Harding speaks about his award-winning book Tinkers and the writing process in Fong Auditorium in Bolyston Hall on Tuesday, March 29. Harding also discusses the long journey that he took to become a prominent author as well as offers valuable advice and insight to aspiring writers, poets, and other artists.
'The Art' of Puzzling, Fascinating Corporate Satire
Elusive French writer Georges Perec may have died in 1982, but thanks to the recent reissue of an oft-forgotten literary experiment from his later years, his humor and his cunning live again.
Promised Land
The Harvard Book Store and Harvard Hillel host fiction writers Elisa Albert, Rachel Kadish, Joan Leegant, Tova Mirvis, and Jonathan Wilson to read from their stories in the new anthology, Promised Lands: New Jewish American Fiction on Longing and Belonging.
Monk's Quirky Characters Never Transcend Silliness
To be fair, not all of “Nude Walker” is painfully cliché. It does, after all, have a scene in which a naked schizophrenic—the main character’s mother—struts around rural Pennsylvania bedecked with little more than a handbag and red lipstick.
Boyle Predicts a Dark Future 'When the Killing's Done'
“When the Killing’s Done,” is like a relic from days of yore. Here is an intelligent novel that not only succeeds as a work of fiction, but also aims to raise cultural awareness about the fine distinctions between environmental conservation movements.
On Information Theory
James Gleick '76 answers a question about the nature of information and information gathering at the Brattle Theatre on Tuesday, March 22, 2011. Hosted by the Harvard Bookstore, this event featured readings from Gleick's new book "The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood."
Shepard's Latest Collection Offers Good, 'Bad,' and Ugly
Characters are killed by earthquakes, floods, and avalanches; others die by auto-da-fé, by war in the jungle, by brain disease, by miscarriage, by suicide.
Jensen Expertly Navigates Life in a Danish Port Town
At the center of this wide-ranging sea drama is the town of Marstal, and the stories of its native sailors, widows, and children.
Out with Woods, In with Brady
Budding economists eager to learn about opportunity cost will soon be faced with football, not golf, when they hit the third chapter of their economics textbook.
