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...campus pastor Chris Brown, in jeans, sneakers and a goatee, cuts from photos of A.P.U. students "who need our prayers" to a scene from the Jim Carrey movie Bruce Almighty. In his sermon, Brown makes references to his winter-break road trip, Jell-O and The Simpsons' pious neighbor Ned Flanders...
Grumet-Morris was again a victim of circumstance at 11:25 of the first, this time off the stick of Ned Havern. Havern fired a hard shot in from near the top of the right face-off circle that went over the net, hit the glass, and ricocheted straight back into the body of Grumet-Morris, dropping neatly into...
Later in the period, Ned Havern ripped a shot wide of the net that caromed off the boards, up into the air, and right into the crease. Unknowingly, Grumet-Morris retreated. Bad idea. He swept the puck into the net with his left leg. How’s that for the eventual game-winner...
Truth is a slippery thing. Just ask Peter Carey. In True History of the Kelly Gang, which won the Booker Prize three years ago, the cunning Australian built a palace of fiction from the "true story" of a legend, the Aussie outlaw Ned Kelly. For My Life as a Fake (Knopf; 266 pages), his point of departure is an even more intricate falsehood, the Ern Malley affair...
Australian novelist Peter Carey frequently finds inspiration in his country's rich social history. In True History of the Kelly Gang, he chronicled the exploits of the bushranger Ned Kelly. In Jack Maggs, he penned a brilliant fantasia about an Aussie convict crossing paths with Charles Dickens. Carey's new novel, My Life as a Fake, is an absorbing, mind-bending tale incorporating another odd corner of Australian history: one of the nation's most bizarre literary scandals, the Ern Malley hoax...