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Daily Digest
Steve Decker cleans up in front of BankNorth on Wednesday.
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More Snow
The Berkshires received several inches of snow this morning, but not enough to close schools, unlike yesterday's sleety mess. Temperatures will drop into the 20s this afternoon. A few more snow showers are expected through the weekend. |
Duff'em If You've Got'em
 North Adams Regional Hospital went smoke-free Monday — so did all its sister sites, from Sweet Brook to Northern Berkshire Family Practice to the Women's Exchange. No ashtrays, no smoking: No butts about it. |
Wanted: Eagle Eyes
MassWildlife's annual eagle count runs Dec. 31 to Jan. 14. Anyone sighting one of the regal birds in Massachusetts is asked to participate.
Send date, time, location and town of eagle sightings, number of birds, whether juvenile or adult and observer's contact information to Mass.wildlife@state.ma.us. |
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Other StuffMars Rovers Mark 5 Years
 Spirit and Opportunity have been trekking the red planet for half a decade. Spirit hit the 5-year mark on Sunday; Opportunity will on Jan. 24. |
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Author Jhumpa Lahiri To Read From New Book - January 02, 2008
WILLIAMSTOWN - Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri will read from a new book of short stories, "Unaccustomed Earth," at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 12.
The reading will be held at the '62 Center for Theatre and Dance on the Williams College campus. A book signing will follow. The event is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. Call the box office at 413-597-2425, Tuesday through Saturday, 1 to 5 for reservations.
Lahiri is the author of "Interpreter of Maladies," a collection of nine short stories, and novel "The Namesake," both of which grapple with the dilemmas of Indian-Americans navigating two distinct cultures.
"Interpreter of Maladies," her 1999 debut, took the literary world by storm. It received the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2000 - making Lahiri the first Indian woman to hold that accolade - as well as the PEN/Hemingway Award, the New Yorker Debut of the Year award, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Addison Metcalf Award. The book has been translated into 29 languages.
"The Namesake," her second book, follows the lives of a Calcutta-born couple and the children that they have after migrating to the United States. A film adaptation, directed by Mira Nair and starring Kal Penn, was released last March to critical acclaim.
Lahiri was born in 1967 in London and raised in South Kingstown, R.I., where she learned Bengali customs at home and was immersed in American culture outside. She lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., with her husband, journalist Alberto Vourvoulias-Bush, and their two children.
After graduating from Barnard College with a bachelor's degree in English literature, Lahiri earned master of arts in English, creative writing and comparative literature, and a doctorate in Renaissance studies from Boston University. She followed this with a two-year fellowship at Provincetown's Fine Arts Work Center.
Lahiri has taught creative writing at Boston University and the Rhode Island School of Design. She has been a vice president of the PEN America Center since 2005. |
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