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A happy birthday to Nadine Gordimer

The Nobel Prize-winning South African author is 83 today, and next week her new story collection comes out, Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black.  My favorite two story descriptions from it are:

'The historian in “History” is a parrot who confronts people with the scandalizing voice reproduction of quarrels and clandestine love-talk on which it has eavesdropped.  “Alternative Endings” considers the way writers make arbitrary choices in how to end stories—and offers three, each relating the same situation, but with a different resolution, arrived at by the three senses: sight, sound, and smell.'
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