Remainders

by Maud | December 27th, 2005

The world celebrates the centenary of Samuel Beckett’s birth next year. (Via Bookslut.)

Translator Edith Grossman and Cuban novelist Mayra Montero interview each other. “I’m curious: How did you feel when you first read my translation of your work into English?” Grossman asks. “As though I were in front of a mirror,” Montero says.

For an elective Bible study class, a Texas school district has adopted a text put out by a Protestant religious advocacy group. An SMU professor evaluated the book last fall and said it contained “factual errors, promoted creationism and taught that the Constitution was based on Scripture.”

Action star Paul Walker joins Anthony Hopkins in a stop-and-go film about Hemingway.

“A New York Times Exclusive” on the writing of Tom Clancy’s Latest Novel, by Greg Ames.

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"And now our Irish family is Jewish. Our 'Swap Cousins' are Irish.”
A century-old switched-at-birth case is unraveled through DNA, with help from CeCe Moore. More at Strange Pilgrimage:
And then, interestingly, she asked me if I had expected my genetics results to report a sizable Ashkenazi component. I had expected it, I told her, but it turns out, I’m not very much Ashkenazi. Instead, I am unexpectedly Irish. It’s all very mysterious, I confided. And that’s when everything started to get a little weird.
Alice wrote that a few years back she had ordered a genetics test. She had expected the results to report that she was Irish, but instead they uncovered that she was half Ashkenazi Jew. She figured there must have been some mistake, but all of her brothers and sisters received the same results. P, her cousin, however, did not. Alice’s cousin, P, was not Jewish and was in fact not genetically related to Alice at all.
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