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4 Dec 2020, 10:03 am
Alison Lurie, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer whose mordant novels punctured pretension, deflated dogma and illuminated the staggering talent of smart people for self-deception, died on Thursday at a hospice center in Ithaca, N.Y. [read post]
5 Nov 2022, 6:08 am
I'll just cherry-pick one thing, a quote from the 1974 novel by Alison Lurie, "The War Between the Tates" (about a married academic couple):"He believed their courses to be composed of equal parts of common sense and nonsense—that is, of the already obvious and the probably false. [read post]
30 Jul 2010, 7:39 am
"No hard news in these statements, but the energy comes from their currency: Fred is parachuting (self-invited) into a dialogue at a Y Combinator conference that he missed and that he seems to be aware of because Anthony Ha blogged about, some 16 hours ago.I wish I could remember the quote from the novelist Alison Lurie, something about how we reveal our true character in moments of crisis, not of our choosing. [read post]
26 Aug 2009, 7:25 am
Byatt's Possession: A Romance, Rebecca Goldstein's provocative The Mind-Body Problem, and Alison Lurie's The War Between the Tates (made into a tv movie in 1977). [read post]
3 Apr 2024, 9:00 pm
Co-moderated by Peter Lurie (Center for Science in the Public Interest) and Caitlin Boon (Mars). [read post]
1 Oct 2017, 9:00 pm
Lurie, president of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), was also swift in getting a statement out. [read post]
6 Sep 2012, 5:00 am
I’ve always loved September and heading back to school, relaxed and tan, exhausted from all the adventures shared with friends and family, and as far away from schoolwork and teachers as possible. [read post]
