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The Accidental Author:
Ha Jin’s Literary Journey
Ha Jin is extolling the virtues of the life academic for poets and novelists. First and foremost, the National Book Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist tells the audience in McNally Amphitheatre, teaching provides a steady income.
“That’s very important,” he deadpans with a comedian’s timing. “For two years, I didn’t have a job; I didn’t teach. I realized that I began to think about how to sell books. That means you become a victim of the tyranny of the book market.
“That’s worse than teaching.”
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Vatican Astronomer: ‘Big Science’ and
‘Big Religion’ at Peace
Brother Guy Consolmagno, S.J., knows a thing or two about heaven and Earth.
An astronomer by training with two degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Jesuit for nearly two decades, he has merged faith and science without a second thought. For Brother Consolmagno, who delivered the annual Loyola Chair lecture at the Walsh Library on Nov. 14, the notion that religion and science are at war with each other is a false pretense.
To him, both are a search for truth.
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