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Recovery efforts in Iraq are meeting with limited success, an American journalist who remained in Baghdad during U.S. airstrikes earlier this year told a crowd of 300 at the Graduate School of Education’s Askwith Lecture Hall last night...
...author and occasional film actor; in New York City. Though he wrote and edited almost 30 books, Plimpton also found time to lead one of the more interesting lives of the 20th century. At the Paris Review he championed the work of Philip Roth and Jack Kerouac. As a journalist he tried out for the Detroit Lions (an experience he described in Paper Lion). He also guest-starred on The Simpsons, danced at Truman Capote's Black and White Ball and witnessed the assassination of Robert Kennedy...
...SUNDAY AT THE POOL IN KIGALI By Gil Courtemanche Love amid war is an ancient literary conceit, but Courtemanche gives it a twist. The journalist-turned-novelist, who reported on the Rwandan genocide during the '90s, sets his unlikely but touching tale against that bloody backdrop. "Passion feeds on abandon," he writes. So it is for his protagonists, who kindle an affair as the country, riven by AIDS and ethnic slaughter but neglected by the rest of the world, descends into chaos...
...most notable exploits as a “participatory journalist,” Plimpton pitched part of an inning of the 1959 All-Star exhibition game, giving up a home run to Frank Thomas, but getting Willie Mays...
...Sunday At The Pool In Kigali By Gil Courtemanche Love amid war is an ancient literary conceit, but Courtemanche gives it a twist. The journalist-turned-novelist, who reported on the Rwandan genocide during the '90s, sets his unlikely but touching tale against that bloody backdrop. "Passion feeds on abandon," he writes. So it is for his protagonists, who kindle an affair as the country, riven by AIDS and ethnic slaughter but neglected by the rest of the world, descends into chaos. My Life As A Fake By Peter Carey What happens when a poet decides to teach everyone else...