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...There will be no mock trial. This is not a pedagogic moment. The faculty and administration have been meeting all day and are dealing with the situation,” Harcourt said. “We want to make sure learning continues and that we address this situation properly...
...Kirkus flips over "The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits: Stories" by Emma Donoghue (Harcourt; May), giving it a starred review. "Seventeen stories by the Irish-born Canadian author ransack what Donoghue calls 'the flotsam and jetsam of the last seven hundred years of British and Irish life' for razor-sharp vignettes of the fates of women in judgmental male-dominated societies...These jewel-like stories vibrate with thickly textured detail and vigorous period language. Donoghue's colorful, confrontational historically based fiction is making something entirely new and captivating out of gender issues. One of the best books...
DIED. WILLIAM JOVANOVICH, 81, maverick businessman who became chairman of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1954, seven years after joining the publishing house as a college-textbook salesman; of heart failure; in San Diego. During his 36-year tenure, Jovanovich also published his own writings, including a 1990 novel, The World's Last Night...
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