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MARJORIE GARBER @ HARVARD BOOK STORE

Posted on March 23, 2011 by J. PAT
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You! Yeah, you, with the pea coat! Sir Mopes-a-lot! Put. The Kundera. Down. Good books get a bad rap these days, mostly on account of all those irredeemable assholes who are liable to curl up their lips into origami because you didn’t catch their perfectly-timed Master and Margarita reference. But what makes great lit great? Harvard professor of English Marjorie Garber tackles the question of whether or not the Western Canon’s got any ammunition left in her book The Use and Abuse of Literature, and she’ll be making her case over at Harvard Book Store this evening. Irredeemable assholes, take notes.

[Tue. 3.29.11. 1256 Mass. Ave., Cambridge. 617.661.1515. 7pm/all ages/$5. harvard.com]

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MARK VONNEGUT @ HARVARD BOOKSTORE

Posted on October 6, 2010 by J. PAT

Growing up the child of Kurt Vonnegut is hard enough on its own—for one thing, how the hell could you see anything through the perpetual Lucky Strike haze? But for Mark Vonnegut, the author’s only son, there was that and a predisposition toward mental illness. Vonnegut’s first book, The Eden Express, is considered a core tome on coping with schizophrenia, which is a bit odd, considering that one of the first things he learned after getting into Harvard Medical School is that he actually had bipolar disorder. Huh. Mark comes to Harvard Book Store to talk about his follow-up Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So. [1256 Mass. Ave., Harvard Sq., Cambridge. 617.661.1515. 7pm/free. harvard.com]

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