Duncan White
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Duncan White
@DWhiteBooks
COLD WARRIORS: WRITERS WHO WAGED THE LITERARY COLD WAR published by @customhousebks and @LittleBrownUK. Teaching @HistLit @harvard
Boston, MA Katılım Mart 2014
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Join us this Thursday, April 4 at 6pm in Fong Auditorium for a Writers Speak with Chigozie Obioma, in conversation with Maya Jasanoff!
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@OliverPSOwen @JamieMctrusty Thanks for this Oliver! Blast from the past… Hope you are doing well!
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@JamieMctrusty In 2002, when I was deputy sports editor of the Observer, we had a chap turn up for work experience who had already prepared a piece that would complement our Winter Olympics coverage. It was about Billy Fiske (theguardian.com/sport/2002/feb…). @DWhiteBooks has trained on well since
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@thesailorsgirl is speaking at @Harvard today!
Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard@MHCHarvard
WRITERS SPEAK WITH NADIFA MOHAMED IN CONVERSATION WITH MAYA JASANOFF | Tuesday, April 11 at 6pm Join us for a Writers Speak event featuring author Nadifa Mohamed in conversation with Professor Maya Jasanoff! Free and open to the public, seating is limited.
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Frank Kermode and Stephen Spender resigned from “Encounter” when the magazine was revealed to have been funded by the CIA. But were they really taking a principled stand?
✍️ Rhodri Lewis, @profrhodrilewis
prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/the-m…
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Join us at 4pm (ET) today to hear the wonderful Bernadine Evaristo (@BernardineEvari) in conversation with the brilliant Gish Jen for @MHCHarvard. It's free and open to the public, register here: eventbrite.com/e/bernardine-e…
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Join us on Tuesday, March 8, 2022 at 4:00 PM EST for the next Writers Speak Event | Bernardine Evaristo in conversation with Gish Jen
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Really looking forward to chatting with @harikunzru for the @MHCHarvard Writers Speak series tomorrow (6pm ET). We'll be talking about Red Pill, White Tears, Into the Zone, Dune and more. It's free and open to the public, sign up here: mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/writers-…
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We're hiring in multiple fields! Scholars working in American Studies and Ethnic Studies; world histories and lit, especially Black or Asian diasporas; and European Studies, including work on migration and decolonization are especially encouraged to apply. histlit.fas.harvard.edu/lecturer-posit…
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Join us on Tuesday, October 19, 2021 at 6:00 PM EDT for the first Writers Speak event of the semester
Rachel Kushner in conversation with James Wood
eventbrite.com/e/rachel-kushn…
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Ebook readers! Cold Warriors: Writers who Waged the Literary Cold War is on Kindle in the US for $1.99 amazon.com/Cold-Warriors-… and in the UK for £2.99 amazon.co.uk/Cold-Warriors-… If nothing else, a lot of pages for less than the price of a pint. @customhousebks @LittleBrownUK
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Tonight @ 7pm! @AtticusLish discusses THE WAR FOR GLORIA—"unflinching and heartbreaking . . . a tremendous achievement"—in conversation with Duncan White (@DWhiteBooks).
Learn more & register: ow.ly/5ZNY50G7mrd

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Monumental injustices — relics, racism and reparations ft.com/content/f451c8…
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You don’t get to stoke the fire at the beginning of the tournament by labelling our anti-racism message as ‘Gesture Politics’ & then pretend to be disgusted when the very thing we’re campaigning against, happens.
Priti Patel MP@pritipatel
I am disgusted that @England players who have given so much for our country this summer have been subject to vile racist abuse on social media. It has no place in our country and I back the police to hold those responsible accountable.
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In which further evidence for Gareth Southgate’s righteousness is provided by 1. His awareness that Yorkshire is the ultimate aspiration and 2. His correct assertion of the ultimate superiority of the Wetherby Whaler.
Sam Cunningham@samcunningham
Inside Gareth Southgate's mind (circa 2010-2015) inews.co.uk/sport/football…
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We are thrilled to announce that Tsitsi Dangarembga is the winner of the PEN Pinter Prize 2021.
She will receive the award at a public ceremony on 11 October in partnership with @britishlibrary.
@efie41209591 #PENPinterPrize
englishpen.org/posts/news/tsi…
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