At the Met he connects the painting to “Back to the Future,” a “crucial movie of my youth.” He and the 8-year-old plan “to self-publish” a book about dinosaurs. The word’s very clunkiness seems to indicate sincerity, but in each case the narrator’s apparently committed attempt to think through a moment of community - sharing an experience of art, playing with a child, giving hospitality to a stranger - is thrown into question by a detectable note of archness. Lerner uses the strikingly unlovely word “coconstructed” to describe the shared nature of their experience: “We would work out our views as we coconstructed the literal view before us.” A few paragraphs on, he and an 8-year-old boy are seen “coconstructing a shoe-box diorama.” Later he can be found letting an Occupy protester shower in his apartment, wondering if it’s possible to “coconstruct a world in which moments can be something other than the elements of profit.” Early in “10:04,” Ben Lerner’s frequently brilliant second novel, the central character - a refraction or avatar of this Brooklyn-based author - describes visiting the Metropolitan Museum with a female friend: “We often visited weekday afternoons, since Alex was unemployed, and I, a writer.” Together they look at a melodramatic 19th-century genre painting of Joan of Arc, which the narrator claims is one of his favorite pictures.
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Jerry West was the pen name assigned to Svenson when he started writing The Happy Hollisters for the Stratemeyer Syndicate. Svenson, a prolific yet somewhat anonymous, writer of books for children. The Happy Hollisters by Jerry West was actually written by Andrew E. Who is the strange and evil looking man who tries to cause the trouble for the Hollisters on their trip to Nevada? And who is the tall lanky cowboy, Dakota Dawson, whose actions are so suspicious? And are the strange lights seen on the mountain man-made or some odd trick of nature? The Happy Hollisters find fun, adventure, danger and the answer to the many questions posed by the mystery surrounding the Tumbling K Ranch. What excitement there is then, when they are invited to visit the Blairs and help them solve this baffling problem. Their interest is further aroused when a prowler is discovered spying on them in Shoreham. Naturally, the minute the Hollisters hear mystery is involved they are eager to be in the thick of it. Blair is trying to sell some of his property on the Tumbling K Ranch, but strange and eerie events have discouraged prospective buyers. Because of a near accident the Hollister children meet and befriend the Blairs who are from Nevada. "Domingo" the burro the Hollisters were given for a pet the last time they were out West is the innocent means by which the Hollisters once again find themselves following the mystery trail on horseback. He has also held a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers and a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship. (1990-91), the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina (1985-86), and a Junior Fellow of Massey College, the University of Toronto (1974-75). He has been a John Adams Fellow at the University of London (1997), a Fellow of the Eccles Centre at the British Library (1997), a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. in Political Economy, and at Yale University, where he received a Ph.D. He was educated at the University of Toronto, where he received a B.A. Newell is Professor of Political Science and Philosophy and co-director of the Centre for Liberal Education and Public Affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Tiger! Tiger! Tavern closed after it was featured on the show.
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