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...famine of 1932-33, which claimed the lives of several million in Ukraine alone. But it isolated Duranty’s famine-denying articles from his Pulitzer articles on Stalin’s Five-Year Plan. “A Pulitzer Prize for reporting is awarded not for the author??s body of work or for the author??s character,” the board explained, “but for the specific pieces entered in the competition...
...between Kidder’s readings of excerpts from Mountains Beyond Mountains, Farmer—always smiling—tossed barbs the author??s way, repeatedly mocking Kidder’s educational pedigree of Andover and Harvard. Farmer also wryly announced plans to retaliate by publishing his own multi-volume version of the months he and Kidder spent together, including such installments as Cry, the Beloved Tracy. Playing on the titles of Kidder’s most laurelled works, he joked that he would publish more books about Haiti: Hut for Kidder’s House and Slum...
This is, of course, no more a conventional author??s role than Mountains Beyond Mountains is a conventional book...
...debate. And yet the vast majority of articles are about as lucid as postmodern social theory written in old German. Moreover, it often seems you can tell which Moral Reasoning classes a Salient editor has taken—and which he or she has missed—by the author??s choice of philosophers...
Reading Phoebe Kosman’s recent column “Just One Word: Plastics,” I found myself frustrated with the author??s narrow view of acceptable career paths ( April 23 ). Not cut out to be an investment banker? That’s fine, and it doesn’t mean that grocery bagger (which, I hasten to add, most certainly does count as a career for many people not so fortunate as Kosman; her dig there counts not as humor but as classism) is the only option left...