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PHOTOS SPECIAL TO THE GAMECOCK
From left: Essayist and novelist Stanley Crouch,
poet Mark Strand and novelist Susan Vreeland will
participate in USC’s annual Fall Festival of Authors.
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A trio of acclaimed authors share their stories at USC
By CARRIE GIVENS
THE GAMECOCK
Today, three accomplished
authors will be visiting
USC to share their literary
works. Running from today through
Friday, USC is holding its annual Fall
Festival of Authors.
Organized by Janette Turner
Hospital, a Carolina Distinguished
Professor of English, the festival will
welcome renowned novelists Stanley
Crouch and Susan Vreeland and
Pulitzer prize-winning poet Mark
Strand.
The festival begins at 5 p.m. with a
free reception featuring the three
authors in the Graniteville Room,
located on the mezzanine floor of
Thomas Cooper Library. Later this
evening, Vreeland will read and
discuss her books in the Law School
Auditorium. Vreeland will sign books
following a question and answer
session.
Thursday, a colloquium
showcasing all three authors will be
held in Rutledge Chapel. This will be
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followed by a reception with the
authors in the McCutcheon House.
Strand will share some of his literary
works with festival attendees at the
Law School Auditorium at 7 p.m.
Afterward, he will be available to sign
books.
On the festival’s last day, MFA
Sixty-Minute Bistro will be open to
the public in Gambrell 428.
“The bistro event that features our
graduate students’ work is always an
amazing thing,” said Steven Lynn,
chairman of the English language and
literature department.
Lynn said Hospital “does a
wonderful job of using her personal
connections to get wonderful writers
here.” And this year is no exception.
Crouch, who will read selections of
his work Friday evening, is a National
Book Award nominee and the author
of “The All American Skin Game,” a
collection of essays that focus on
topics such as jazz, modern American
films and American literature. In
addition, Crouch is a musician,
artistic consultant to the Lincoln
Center and a jazz critic. He also is
columnist for the New Yorker, New
Republic and the New York Daily
News.
Strand won his 1999 Pulitzer Prize
for “Blizzard of One.” Named U.S.
poet laureate in 1990, he has written
nine books of poetry and a book of
short stories. He teaches at the
University of Chicago.
Vreeland began her literary career
writing feature articles for newspapers
and magazines. Her first novel, “What
Loves Sees,” was made into a CBS
television movie. Her biographical
novels on artists such as Johannes
Vermeer, Artesmia Gentilleschi and
Emily Carr have received critical
acclaim.
Hospital, who organized the
festival, is the author of this year’s
Freshman Reading Experience novel,
“Due Preparations for the Plague.”
The Fall Festival of Authors is
planned in conjunction with her
English course, “Caught in the
Creative Act.”
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Fall Festival of Authors
Schedule of Events
All events open to the public.
Wednesday
5-6:30 p.m. Gala opening cocktail reception with authors in
Graniteville Room, Thomas Cooper Library. Free.
7 p.m. Reading, talk, Q&A session with novelist Susan Vreeland,
Law School Auditorium. Free.
8 p.m. Book signing.
Thursday
3- 4 p.m. Colloquium with all festival authors in Rutledge Chapel
on the Horseshoe. Free.
4- 5 p.m. Reception with authors in McCutcheon House. Free.
7 p.m. Reading, talk, Q&A session with poet Mark Strand, Law
School Auditorium.
8 p.m. Book Signing.
Friday
3-4 p.m. MFA Sixty-Minute Bistro in Gambrell 428. Free.
7 p.m. Reading, talk, Q&A session with essayist and novelist
Stanley Crouch, Law School Auditorium. Free.
8 p.m. Book signing.
Beastie Boys
tackle politics
By MICHAEL HAMERSLY
KRT CAMPUS
Who would have thought after
1986’s “Licensed to 111” that Beastie
Boys, three gleefully snotty punks
from Brooklyn, would go on to
become one of the most influential rap
acts of all time?
But here they are: stylistic
trendsetters, harbingers of hip, having
schooled sucker MCs with their fresh
beats and ill rhymes for two decades.
It would have been easy, even
natural, to dismiss the often clownish
trio (MCA. Ad-Rock and Mike D) as a
novelty after their frat-house anthem
“Fight For Your Right” inevitably
grew as stale as morning-after keg beer.
Luckily, Beastie Boys got sick of
the party-animal personas in which
they became trapped, says Mike D in a
phone interview from New York.
“It was tons of fun making
‘Licensed to 111,’ but as that tour
dragged on, and night after night we
had to become these caricatures we put
forward on the record, it became a real
drag for us,” he says. “We had a good
time, but we definitely wanted to do
something different.”
What an understatement. Their
funky follow-up album, “Paul’s
Boutique,” with the production help
of the4 Dust Brothers, became a hip
hop landmark, a huge influence on
countless artists, most notably Beck.
And yet, few took Beastie Boys
seriously.
“With ‘Paul’s Boutique,’
the attitude was still like
‘three idiots create a
masterpiece,’” says
Mike D. “It still
seemed like it was a
total accident.”
Many of their
fans criticized
them for
evolving.
“People who
thought we’d
come up with
another ‘Fight
For Your
Right’ were.
like, ‘What are
you giving
us?’” he
recalls. “And
then years
later, it’s like,
‘Awww, “Paul’s
Boutique” is my
favorite album!’”
But as Beastie
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SYMPHONY PREVIEW
Young violinist Hristova
to play with symphony
By MEG MOORE
THE GAMECOCK
She’s appeared with Garrison Keiller on NPR and
played for an audience of 10,000 at the Tanglewood
Music Festival. She’s worked with some of the world’s
most accomplished musicians and proven herself as a
prizewinning, violin prodigy. She’s appeared
with a number of renowned symphonies,
and she is not yet 20 years old.
Belgian-born
violinist Bella
Hristova will appear
with the USC
Symphony Orchestra
Thursday evening,
bringing her world
class skills to the
Koger Center
stage.
the feature soloist of an all
B Tchaikovsky evening — the
, symphony will also perform the
■ composer’s “Marche Slave” and “Swan
19-year-old Bella Hristova will join the
USC symphony playing Tchaikovsky.
EGAMECOCK
Lake Suite.”
Having played violin since the age of 6, Hristova
learned from the best, studying under Joseph Radionov
and Ruggiero Ricci. She came to the United States five
years ago to study at New York’s Meadowmount
School of Music with Stephen Shipps. She continued
her work at the University of Michigan’s School of
Music and entered Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of
Music in late 2003 to study with Ida Kavafian.
The Ann Arbor News has described her playing as
having “warmth, rhythmic vitality and a wonderful
range of color.” The Boston Globe called her “an
impressively poised teenage violinist.”
Hristova has already performed with the Ashland,
Illinois and Olympia Symphony Orchestra and played
engagements with the Czech Philharmonic Chamber
Orchestra, among others. Earlier this year, she was one
of six featured performers in an international young
artists festival in Hilton Head.
As the 1999 first prize winner at the International
Enesco Competition in Romania, the Grand Prize
winner at the Michigan American String Teachers
Competition one month later, and the 2001 Grand Prize
Winner of the International Kocian Competition in the
Czech Republic, Hristova is well on her way to greatness.
Thursday’s concert begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Koger
Center. Tickets are $18 for general admission; $15 for
senior citizens, faculty and staff members; and $8 for
students.
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