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“Working in a fast-paced, diverse and The official daily newspaper of Chautauqua Institution welcomes professional newsroom, the way the applications for summer 2016 reporting internships. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis through early spring. Daily is run, prepared me for the real world. Instead of fact-checking or The Chautauquan Daily is a unique opportunity for writers to cover the fine and performing arts, prominent speakers who address major contemporary running errands, we were doing hands- issues and nationally known theologians. Since 1876, the newspaper has on reporting, day in and day out.” served a community of critical and astute readers and has also functioned as the historical record for Chautauqua Institution. This is an ideal Beth Ann Downey Deputy Editor, JUMP PHILLY experience for building a portfolio for careers in writing and the media. The 2010 Chautauquan Daily reporter prestige of Chautauqua Institution enhances the value of work published during the internship. CLSC Young Readers to follow raccoon adventures in Week Six selection, Page 3 Townsend, Savage set the stage for CTC’s Henry V, Page 2 The Chautauquan Daily www.chqdaily.com Seventy-Five Cents The Offi cial Newspaper of Chautauqua Institution | Wednesday, August 5, 2015 Chautauqua, New York Volume CXXXIX, Issue 34 All reporting interns are considered full members of the editorial staff. A CONTEMPORARY Larson to lecture on CLSC book ‘Dead Wake,’ wartime vanishings

RYAN PAIT Staff Writer The Chautauquan Daily In disguise, Henry speaks with his soldiers before battle. Chautauqua Theater Company’s production of Henry V concludes at 4 p.m. today in Bratton Theater. JOSHUA BOUCHER | Staff Photographer Beats include: When people think of www.chqdaily.com Seventy-Five Cents massive ships sinking at The Offi cial Newspaper of Chautauqua Institution | Friday, August 21, 2015 the turn of the 20th century, Chautauqua, New York Volume CXXXIX, Issue 48 their thoughts might fi rst SPIN go to the RMS Titanic, for- ever immortalized by James Cameron’s blockbuster mov- ie, Kate Winslet and Leon- Mousavians, Kiyaei to address U.S.-Iran relations, nuclear deal ardo DiCaprio’s star-making performances and the tin MIRANDA WILLSON calls for a reduction of Iran’s ura- and the Middle East to fully un- stage and ask him questions. whistle solo from Celine Di- Staff Writer nium stockpiles in exchange for derstand why. “The JCPA is perhaps the fi rst on’s “My Heart Will Go On.” relief from nuclear-related sanc- Mousavian will address the time the U.S. and Iran have en- With Dead Wake: The Last LARSON Seyed Hossein Mousavian has tions. Mousavian, a former dip- JCPA, Iran-U.S. relations and the gaged in high-level, direct talks,” Crossing of the Lusitania, au- some advice to those who are crit- lomat and Iranian nuclear nego- country’s role in the Middle East Mousavian said. “And it has re- thor Erik Larson wanted to Larson will speak about became the Week Six lec- ical of proposed Iran nuclear deal: tiator who was born in Iran and at the 10:45 a.m. morning lecture sulted in a major breakthrough to tell the tale of another sink- his work on Dead Wake as ture theme, it became clear “Be realistic.” has studied in both the U.S. and today in the Amphitheater. His resolve one of the most important · Morning lecture platform · Recreation ing ship: the RMS Lusita- part of the morning lec- to her the novel would be a The Joint Comprehensive Plan Great Britain, said it will stabilize son, Mohammad, a graduate stu- international security issues, the nia, which was torpedoed ture series for Week Six, the great fi t for the 2015 season. of Action, the full name of the the region and create a pathway dent at the University of Pennsyl- nuclear Iran case, through diplo- and sunk by a German U- recent Iran nuclear deal between for peace between Iran and the vania, and Emad Kiyaei, the ex- theme of which is “Vanish- She said Larson’s book has macy and negotiation.” boat in 1915. Larson said be- ing.” His presentation will the United States, China, Russia, West. Western critics, he believes, ecutive director of the American two ties to the theme of the MOUSAVIAN KIYAEI See MOUSAVIAN, Page 4 fore writing the book, most be at 10:45 a.m. today in week, one obvious and one the European Union and Iran, are often too biased against Iran Iranian Council, will join him on- of his knowledge about the the Amphitheater. Larson’s not so obvious. Lusitania was what “every- book is one of two Chautau- “Certainly, the Lusitania body kind of knows when qua Literary and Scientifi c — it just sank,” Babcock said. they emerge from high Circle selections for Week “But in reading the book, Archaeologist Magness to school, which is that the Six, along with Héctor To- · Religion and ethics lecture series · Visual arts there’s such a strong theme Lusitania was sunk. And bar’s Deep Down Dark: The of the vanishing rules of the thing you’re left with in discuss ancient Jerusalem Untold Stories of 33 Men Bur- warfare that we thought THE your mind is that it brought ied in a Chilean Mine, and the would be a wonderful lec- [America] into the war.” Miracle That Set Them Free. ture for the week.” ALEXANDRA “As archaeolo- Larson said the sinking Sherra Babcock, vice One of those vanishing GREENWALD gists, we not only Charlotte Ballet is often taught as the World president and Emily and rules was the notion that Staff Writer uncover ancient re- CAROL War I equivalent of the Richard Smucker Chair civilians were generally off - mains, but we also to showcase Pearl Harbor attacks, which for Education, said she re- limits in times of war, Lar- Though the are responsible for he says isn’t quite correct. ceived an advance copy son said. The attack on the preservation and the preservation of · Opera · Dance ‘Dance Innovations’ “It was two full years of Dead Wake and was ini- Lusitania changed that in an sharing of sacred the site,” Magness BURNETT before America got into tially considering it as an irrevocable way. space might seem said. “Everything World War I, which really option for 2016’s program- MAGNESS we bring to light HAYLEY ROSS surprised me,” Larson said. ming. When “Vanishing” See LARSON, Page 4 to be the task of Staff Writer those who run is part of a shared churches, synagogues or world heritage. Whatever SHOW mosques, Jodi Magness is archaeologists uncover, es- Art is often used as a responsible for the conser- pecially in a case like Jeru- way to start a dialogue Tradition on parade as Class of 2015 vation of spaces and objects salem, belongs to a heritage about what is happening that were considered sa- that is shared by everybody · Theater · Literary arts cred millennia ago. across the globe.” in the world today. And celebrates its CLSC Recognition Day Magness is an archae- Magness has participat- at 8:15 p.m. tonight in the ologist specializing in ed in 20 Greek and Israeli RYAN PAIT Amphitheater, Charlotte Palestine and Israel and a excavations. Her current Staff Writer project is an excavation of Ballet’s inventive, senior endowed chair in the Department of Reli- Huqoq, an ancient Jewish contemporary “Dance village in Galilee. Recognition Day is a gious Studies at University Provided Photo Innovations” will be the scene out of time. White- of North Carolina Chapel The excavation of Huqoq began in 2011 and has re- clad graduates march, mu- Hill. She will give a lecture medium used to bring vealed several late Roman- · Symphony · Environmental issues titled “Sacred Space: What sic plays, fl ower petals drift Byzantine mosaics that cov- Comedic genius to share life stories in audience Q-and-A issues such as bullying, Makes Jerusalem Special?” through the air. Lewis Mill- er the fl oor of a synagogue. conformity, peace and er and John Heyl Vincent at 2 p.m. today in the Hall See MAGNESS, Page 4 DEBORAH TREFTS | Staff Writer other social topics to light. are even there. of Philosophy. The event serves as the n 1957, shortly before she stepped onto the larly on his TV variety show. See DANCE, Page 5 culmination of approxi- stage for her second guest appearance on “The CBS Executive Producer Bob Banner pressed Bur- mately four years of read- Ed Sullivan Show,” Carol Burnett learned that nett to adopt it as the warm-up portion of “The Carol ing for the Class of 2015 Monactor Fincken to revive her New York City nightclub routine was the Burnett Show,” the hourlong weekly variety show Chautauqua Literary and follow-up act to Elvis Presley. Since Presley had comprised of comedic sketches, music, dancing and · Chautauqua Music Festival JEFF CRAVOTTA | Provided Photo JOSHUA BOUCHER | Staff Photographer Scientifi c Circle graduates. Edison, Ford friendship in lecture recentlyI joined the Army, Sullivan had planned a guest stars that aired from 1967 to 1978. Reluctantly, Jordan Leeper and Sarah Hayes Harkins Jeff Miller, CLSC activities coordinator, leads the Class of 2015 spectacular salute. she agreed to give the intimidating Q-and-A concept See CLSC, Page 4 through the Hall of Philosophy during the Vigil Sunday night. GEORGE COOPER the Hall of Christ as part of As Burnett began performing, the large marching a shot for a couple of shows. By the third week, both Staff Writer the Oliver Archives Heri- band that had been honoring Presley and the studio she and the audience had warmed up to it and were tage Lecture Series. audience of screaming teenage girls enamored with having fun. Every day, Chautau- If history were to repeat “The King” fell silent. In her memoir, Carrie and Me, Neither Moore nor Burnett used “plants” in the quans walk the walk of itself, it would be like this, Burnett wrote they just sat and stared at her for the audience. The warm-up part of their shows was com- Zuckerman to discuss impact of rising secularism on culture Thomas Edison and Henry Fincken said. For more than remainder of the hour. pletely unscripted. It still is. The diff erence now is Ford — literally, in their 20 years, he has toured as a But she came back; big time. In 1962, a resilient that Burnett will talk to the audience for nearly 90 minutes. ALEXANDRA GREENWALD ing around According to Zuckerman, obviously, and not all of gious because they’re raised approach to solving problems footsteps, as the two were living history performer at Burnett won a Peabody “Personal Award” for her Staff Writer good friends and spent educational institutions, comedic performances and an Emmy for her perfor- “I’ve been doing this well over 25 years,” Burnett without America is seeing the “most them are agnostic, though religious. It’s a socialization like global warming, and a said. “People ask, ‘What’s Tim Conroy like in real many hours together on the cultural events, libraries mance on “The Garry Moore Show.” these val- signifi cant increase of non-re- signifi cant chunks of them eff ect,” he said. “So, as more greater separation of church life?’ And about Vicki Lawrence: ‘How did you dis- The terms “religious” and grounds. It was a friend- and at many Chautauquas. At 8:15 p.m. tonight in the Amphitheater, Burnett ues, aspira- ligious people in the history are. So something is hap- people stop raising their and state,” he said. cover her?’ I have stories that I tell.” “secular” are often presented ship of two great — if im- His performance today is — the stage, TV, fi lm and voice actress, comedienne, tions, politi- of the nation.” Twenty-three pening [demographically].” kids religious, you’re going “On the bad side, we’re go- She does have a plethora of tales. as opposites, but according his fi rst time at the mother singer and best-selling author — will present “An cal, agendas percent of Americans today A variety of factors might to see even more people be- ing to see decreases in social perfect — people. “I had an odd contract with CBS, where it was my to Phil Zuckerman, that is a Chautauqua in New York Evening with Carol Burnett.” or goals. claim no religion, an increase contribute to the rise of ing secular.” capital, heightened individu- Both will appear option on whether I wanted to do a variety show,” Summer reporting internships at Chautauqua are open to undergraduate misconception. state. Quite the from 4 percent who made the American secularism, such Zuckerman said the rise alism, a decrease in certain through the vehicle of one She is putting on only three such shows. “We mustn’t think of reli- “I am excited about this Burnett said. “They said it’s a man’s game. It’s Sid ZUCKERMAN religious heritage, traditions, man, Hank Fincken, an his- Burnett’s is the only performance at Chautauqua gion as one thing and secu- opposite.” same claim in the 1950s. as a reaction against the reli- of secularism will likely have gig,” Fincken said. Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Jack Benny, Milton Berle, Zucker- “In no state is religion gious right, church scandals signifi cant impacts on Amer- celebrations, and we’re going torical monactor and a per- Institution to have sold out before the season even Dean Martin. They wanted me to do a sitcom, and I larism as just the absence Fincken prepares each of began. man will give a lecture titled growing, and in every state and anti-religious humor in ican society. to see a bit more of people not former with a distinctively said, ‘No, I want to be diff erent people.’ I’d learned so of that,” said Zuckerman, Chautauqua experience, his presentations according She will use the improvised, give-and-take, Q- “Irreligion Rising: Why More it’s decreasing,” Zuckerman popular culture, and Zucker- “On the positive, we’re connecting with each other to the interests of the group much working with Garry Moore.” professor of sociology and who will bring to life Edi- and-A format that Garry Moore excelled at with his Americans are Becoming said. “More and more peo- man said the trend is unlike- going to see an increase of as much.” to whom he is presenting. secular studies at Pitzer Col- son and Ford in a presen- audiences during the three years she appeared regu- See BURNETT, Page 4 lege. “Secular people are not Secular” at 2 p.m. today in ple say they’re not religious. ly to be reversed. women’s rights, an increase tation at 3:30 p.m. today in See FINCKEN, Page 4 like empty vessels walk- the Hall of Philosophy. Not all of them are atheists, “Most people are reli- of gay rights, a more rational See ZUCKERMAN, Page 4 and graduate students whose studies include journalism and mass IN TODAY’S DAILY Like and follow us online! /chqdaily @chqdaily @chqdaily IN TODAY’S DAILY Like and follow us online! /chqdaily @chqdaily @chqdaily

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ONE LAST QUESTION FOR THE 2015 CLSC AUTHORS: FIRST IN A FOUR-PART SERIES and spelling. A knowledge of AP style is helpful. A background in music is Words by Colin Hanner & Video by Caitie McMekin The Ingrams’ love story beneficial for some beats. CHANGED YOUR LIFE? RYAN PAIT | Staff Writer ANNE FADIMAN Presenter of The Opposite of Loneliness

ast year, I asked Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPhee every Chautauqua Fadiman’s choice was one she discovered when and Literary Scien- she was a freshman in college. She read McPhee’s work as a series in The New Yorker, and found a kin- tifi c Circle author I dred spirit in someone who wrote about the outdoors L interviewed what in a profound way. “This book made me think, ‘This is what I want book they would want with them if to do with my life,’ ” Fadiman said. “I imagined that somehow I could spend my life writing about nature The summer 2016 internship runs from June 14 to Aug. 26. (Special they were on a desert island. I was and the outdoors, and I have done that and written fascinated by the responses, and about plenty of other stuff as well. But the kind of so I decided to ask every CLSC literary journalism that John McPhee did — I didn’t know it existed as a genre. I never read anything like author this year a different ques- that for an English class in high school. That’s not what tion: What book changed their life? we were assigned. And my jaw dropped. I realized that it was possible, and that this was what I wanted to do As someone who aspires to be an English with my life. I’ve been fortunate enough to be able to do that. Of course, not anywhere near on the level of arrangements can be made for successful candidates whose classes begin professor — and someone who reads a John McPhee.” lot — I’m always interested in knowing what other people are reading. That curiosity inten- PHIL KLAY, sifi es when said people are famous authors. Author of Chautauqua Prize winner Redeployment The answers I received were thought- Silence by Shusaku Endo ful, simple and sometimes revelatory. It’s Klay’s answer was short and sweet. interesting to see how one book can shape “It’s a wonderful Japanese novel,” Klay said. “It’s a a person’s path in life. really profound, painful kind of book.” prior to Aug. 26.) The Daily is published six days a week. Interns receive a It’s a hefty list, both in terms of page counts and in terms of topics and genres EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL represented. Consider it recommended Author of Station Eleven reading for the off-season. Here’s what the The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje authors had to say: Mandel’s choice ended up being a book that was part of the CLSC in 1994, something she was previ- ROBERT PINSKY ously unaware of. Author of The Sounds of Poetry “That’s a great question — that’s what I say when stipend and usually live in pre-arranged housing on or near the Chautauqua English Renaissance Poetry: A Collection of Shorter Poems I’m stalling for an answer,” Mandel said. “I think I can from Skelton to Jonson by John Williams maybe say The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje. I “He took these poems written at the very beginning of read that book when I was 14, and it was one of those modern English — not just by William Shakespeare, but books where I felt like that was the book — I can’t say poets like Fulke Greville, George Gascoigne — and he that there was any one book that specifi cally made presents them in a way that opened up to me the range of me a writer — but that was the book that showed me possibilities and the musical variety of writing in English,” what prose could be. He’s just a master stylist. I found ‘Nearly love at first sight’ Pinsky said. that book to be absolutely gorgeous. And I still think about it all the time, even though I read it so long ago. So I think I have to point to that one.” Institution grounds. Financial assistance for housing is provided. Reporters’ Note: This is the fi rst in a four-part series about individuals who have found love on the grounds of Chautauqua Institution. GILBERT KING Author of Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, The idyllic setting of Chautauqua Lake and the quaint streets with generations of tradition paints the perfect background for love, the Groveland Boys and the Dawn of a New America ERIK LARSON Author of Dead Wake: young and old. We aimed to bring together stories of love that were fostered by nights spent in the College Club, performances Papillon by Henri Charrière The Last Crossing of the Lusitania “It’s a funny answer, and it probably doesn’t make a lot in the Amphitheater, evenings on porches and walks on the dock — love fostered by the mix and magic of Chautauqua. In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway of sense, but as a young man I read a book called Papillon,” King said. “And I was probably too young to read it. But it’s “I really feel that, in that collection of short stories, n June 24, 1964 in Chautauqua, Bill In- talking about how big the cake would be and what the story of this big prison escape and a wrongly accused it not only touched something in my life as a young gram had made a bet with his two other it would look like, and my mother said, ‘Well, what man escaping from Devil’s Island.” man, but in a more concrete and relative basis, it brothers: Whomever was the fi rst to pick should we put on top of the cake?’ And my father King said the injustice of Charrière’s situation weighed really taught me to write,” Larson said. “It taught me up a girl at the College Club mixer could O said, ‘A statue of the Virgin Mary.’ ” on him heavily. how important it was or how valuable it could be to have free rein of their mother’s car for the night. Ear- Bill and Joan would have their fi rst child 17 years “I just felt like there was an adventure and drama that strip your prose of adjectives and adverbs and try to lier that same day, Joan Bailey had just fi nished her after they were married, and two more after that. you could use in order to tell a story about injustice. And convey things without telling. That’s what Hemingway shift at the Athenaeum Hotel and was planning on After nearly 50 years of marriage, Bill and Joan I think that stayed with me for a very long time. It’s a very was really the master at — conveying themes and spending the night out with her coworkers. still return to Chautauqua, a place that they say simple book, but it just had an effect on me. It reached me ideas without actually telling you.” “I was at Chautauqua to work in the Athenaeum has helped foster their relationship. deep inside and made me realize that drama was a great For more information, contact editor Jordan Steves at 716-357-6434 as a waitress, and a bunch of girls said, ‘The College “[It’s an] informal atmosphere, where there’s no way to bring about stories of injustice.” HÉCTOR TOBAR Club is open this evening. Why don’t we go along?’ ” structure as such to things that you do,” Bill said. Author of Joan said. “So I went along to the College Club — it Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories “It’s easygoing and you’re continuously together for had been the fi rst time I had been.” JON KRAKAUER of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, the full season.” and e Bill noticed Joan at the mixer. As Bill said, it was Author of Missoula: Rape and the Justice the Miracle That Set Them Fre “nearly love at fi rst sight.” Bill and Joan, who both have shared interests in System in a College Town Native Son by Richard Wright But Joan described Bill as rather skinny and not so jazz music — especially Lambert, Hendricks and tall (but with beautiful hands); there was nothing in Ross — and sailing, both describe their marriage as a Dear Thief by Samantha Harvey and “I have to say the fi rst book that always comes particular that stuck out about him. “mutual respect,” evidenced by their bluntness with For the Time Being by Annie Dillard to mind when I think about that question is Rich- “Aside from his nose?” Joan said. “No, he was a each other and the way they describe each other. Krakauer had two choices: one he said that touched ard Wright’s novel Native Son, which I read when I or [email protected]. To apply, send a cover letter, resume, the generally a nice person, easy to talk to [with] lots of “I would say my mother pinned it when she said, him recently and one that’s a career-long infl uence. He said was a teenager in college,” Tobar said. “It’s a novel opinions [and] lots of ideas. He’s a great talker, and I’m not a great talker — I’m ‘She’s very, very proud,’ ” Bill said. “She’s very proud he has a shelf above his desk with the 20 or so books “that about a black man who is charged with a murder in a better listener — so that worked out well. Maybe [it was love] at fourth or and determined in her views. Intellectually, she will yield if you fi nally prove are the touchstones” of his reading life. 1930s Chicago, an era of incredible segregation and fi fth or sixth sight. I was only 18 at the time, and it’s easy to fall in love when her inextricably to bring her around to your argument.” “A book that I recently read — and I can’t even tell you discrimination. And the anger and the ambition of that you’re 18, and you really go in the deep end when you’re that young.” The two attend lectures and musical events on a daily basis while at Chau- why it changed my life — but it’s one of the few books novel — it was a book that aimed to give voice to a Bill approached Joan, but didn’t carry the characteristics of the physically tauqua and discuss the content and their personal reactions to them. Their that I started rereading immediately after I fi nished it — community that was oppressed and silenced. That, awkward teenager she described as he approached her. relationship is void of rift, even when they get heated in a debate, which, in was Dear Thief by Samantha Harvey, a British novelist,” to me, awakened my artistic ambition and my writerly “I danced with a couple of girls and danced with Joan,” Bill said. “It was a recent times, has tended to gravitate toward climate change. Krakauer said. “It’s just a pretty simple novel, on the face of ambition. I would say it’s a book that helped to make straightforward pickup. We were talking, and we found out we had enough “I think this is an everyday occurrence,” Bill said. “There’s nothing special it. It doesn’t sound profound. But it’s just beautifully written, me a writer and a very important book to me.” names of at least three references and samples of your writing to the mutual interest that we thought about going out for a drink at Smokey Joe’s about it. I say one thing, she says another, and then I’ll say, ‘I’ll demonstrate and it speaks to the human condition. It turns out, as I in Mayville. As I had a car available to me, and I had beaten my brothers to it.’ [I’ll] bring in the proof, and sometimes she’ll accept it and sometimes not.” realized halfway through it, that it was inspired by a Leonard ANTHONY DOERR the draw as it were, off Joan and I went to Joe’s, and we haven’t looked back.” The two used to have disagreements on the high seas as sailors, either near Cohen song that I love called ‘Famous Blue Raincoat.’ ” Author of All the Light We Cannot See After summers spent working and spending time among their coworkers their home in a small village north of London or in Chautauqua. That, though, His other choice was one that he said has stuck with ; or, by Herman Melville and colleagues in Chautauqua (“Dating in the 1960s in Chautauqua wasn’t was eventually resolved. him for a long time. Moby-Dick The Whale what you did,” Bill said. “You ran in packs with your friends.”), Bill eventually “We started sailing together. He was the helm, and I was the crew,” Joan “I really like Annie Dillard,” Krakauer said. “She wrote a “When I read it in high school, I thought, ‘Hmm,’ ” proposed to Joan at a food hangout near the University of Pennsylvania. said. “I was way too small, and we ever had disagreements, it was on the water book called For the Time Being. That’s one of the books Doerr said. “But when I read it again in my 20s, I “And on Sunday we went to the Greasy Greek down the street, and I think that’s probably had the largest effects on my life. I’m sure about which way to go. That’s why we decided to get two boats instead of one. would say that it changed my life.” I said something like, ‘Let’s get married,’ ” Bill said. “[And she said], ‘Oh, OK.’ it’s had a large effect.” On our 25th anniversary, I wrote him a poem, and the conclusion of the poem That was the long and short of it. I’m not a romantic to start with, so it’s not email above or to Jordan Steves, , Chautauqua was looking forward to the next 25 years, and it said something like, ‘And we LAWRENCE WRIGHT The Chautauquan Daily that big a part of [our relationship]. We’re not lovey-dovey. If I were to hold her need to get another boat.’ ” ALICE McDERMOTT Author of Thirteen Days in September: hand, she would wonder what I was up to.” Author of Someone Yet, Bill struggles to grasp at words to describe how their relationship has Like rising tides, confl ict has come and gone. Bill and Joan will celebrate Carter, Begin and Sadat at Camp David their anniversary in mid-November and plan on returning to Chautauqua formed, his eyes misting with emotion at certain moments when he knew, The Short Stories of Vladimir Nabokov The Moviegoer by Walker Percy almost certainly, that he would not lose sight of Joan no matter the circum- next summer. Like Chautauqua, there is something in their love that surpass- by Vladimir Nabokov stances. es description. Wright’s choice had special signifi cance for him, “Oh, my gosh,” McDermott said. “It’s hard to say just Bill, who did not produce an engagement ring when he proposed, married “It’s an extremely pleasant relationship, but you can’t put your fi nger on because he was actually able to meet Percy. one. But I would have to say — because I think I’ve said it Joan two-and-a-half months later at the Western Reserve Academy Chapel in anything particular to describe it,” Joan said. “It’s complicated, but very satis- “When I was in college at Tulane [University], I was before — the fi rst time I read The Short Stories of Vladimir Hudson, Ohio. fying, rewarding, supporting — all of those things.” in a philosophy class, and I had to write a paper — an Nabokov, I had a very clear sense when reading those that I honors thesis,” Wright said. “And I decided I would Institution, PO Box 28, Chautauqua, NY 14722. “It was quick,” Joan said. “I went over to Cleveland to help my mother with wanted to be a writer.” some of the arrangements, and very close to the day we were talking about the Daily multimedia editor Caitie McMekin produced a video supplement to this write on the infl uence of [Søren] Kierkegaard on the McDermott said she can remember exactly where she cake — we did all that traditional stuff . My mother, my father and I were all story. View it at our website, chqdaily.com. novels of Walker Percy. Percy had won the National was and why she was reading Nabokov, and that she “just Book Award, but he was still a very little-known writer fell in love with his sentences.” living outside of New Orleans across Lake Pontchar- “And I just thought, ‘I will never be able to write that well, train. But he was a philosopher and a novelist. but if I spent my whole life trying to write that well, it would be worthwhile,’ ” McDermott said. See BOOKS, Page C3 KELSEY BELL | Web Editor DESIGNED BY | BRIANNA SCHROER