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...Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, the Harvard Glee Club, and the Radcliffe Choral Society join forces to present Mozart’s Requiem. Musical accompaniment is provided by the Orchestra of Emmanuel Music, and soloists include Carole Haber (soprano), Paula Murrihy (mezzo-soprano), William Hite (tenor), and Mark McSweeney (baritone). Sanders Theatre. 8 p.m. Tickets $18-$28, students...
...which established him as a writer of the first rank. At 32, Eggers is the yeti of American letters--powerful, mysterious, mischievous but generally believed to be benevolent. Now the yeti has emerged from the wilderness with a new book, a first novel called You Shall Know Our Velocity (McSweeney's Books; 371 pages) that tells the story of two friends who travel around the world giving away money. It may finally settle the question, Dave Eggers, man or myth...
...resolve it himself. Even before the success of Heartbreaking Work, a moving and fiercely intelligent account of taking care of his younger brother after the death of their parents, Eggers was a literary Johnny Appleseed who put substantial amounts of his own money into founding the literary journal McSweeney's and starting a publishing imprint, McSweeney's Books. Earlier this year he established 826 Valencia, a non-profit center in San Francisco where students can go for tutoring in writing. At the same time he has slipped into self-imposed obscurity, avoiding the press--he returned Time's phone calls...
...McSWEENEY'S www.mcsweeneys.net STAGGERING GENIUS You'll find fiction, nonfiction, drawings of hairy people and a little poetry at this witty, literate site. It's a self-proclaimed must-read "for the junior Harper...
...Gray, who plays Russell, calls it "creative gossip" - make the script more alive and present for the actors. "When you have Gore around all of a sudden you're one degree of separation from all of this American history that he's writing about in this play," says Ethan McSweeney, the 29-year-old director making his Broadway debut with "The Best Man." (McSweeney, incidentally, is a Washingtonian whose family is friendly with that other Gore, the one running for president...