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V.S. Naipaul starts out peevish, becomes expansive on getting Nobel
V.S. Naipaul Naipaul, on one October after another, witnessed the Nobel’s crown placed on other heads, including that of another Trinidadian, the poet Derek Walcott, who won the prize in ...
Wallace Stevens, Chekhov, Susan Cheever, Annie Dillard, Hemingway, Anita Brookner
Wallace Stevens I remember why I bought The Collected Poems. Stevens’s “Anecdote of a Jar,” from his first collection, Harmonium, published in 1923, was in an anthology I owned. I ...
What use UTC has of books
Books do furnish a room, but not at Pottery Barn in University Town Center. Even the writing desk is piled high with leather travel cases instead of readables. The only ...
Anthony Smith eases up on piano, reinvents himself in New York
No, not a CD-release party, although jazz music will be played live. It’s a book-signing party, the author of which is central to the band. Anthony Smith’s back in town ...
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