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via nytimes.com
You might have heard Mario Vargas Llosa, Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing for the Lewis Center, won the Nobel Prize in Literature a few weeks ago. So you’d think, hey, guy’s a big deal, probably wants to get out a place like Princeton.
Nope. Vargas Llosa still happily gets up at 5:30 a.m., boards NJTransit in Manhattan, and commits himself to a “Kafkaesque commute” to our collegiate hamlet.
Nobel Prize winner, novelist and playwright, Peruvian presidential candidate, rival (and physical aggressor) of novelist Gabriel Garcia Márquez — Vargas Llosa’s a lot of things. Add “great Princeton professor” to that.
Read more at the New York Times.
Were you hosed from Joyce Carol Oates’s Creative Writing class? Yeah, me too (signed in to an art history course second round…)