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Gentle spoof gets straight to heart
Winnipeg Free Press
AT an arts camp in the Berkshires where the kids wake up every morning to Haydn's Surprise Symphony, six teens drink vodka and Tang and proclaim that "Gunter Grass is basically God." In 1974, the same summer that Nixon is "lifted off the White House ...

Portrait of the artist as a young woman
CathNews
M. O'Brien has a taste for excellent writing and excellent conversation, and among the writers who circulate through this memoir are Samuel Beckett, Philip Roth, Harold Pinter and Günter Grass. Then there's Norman Mailer, who once said to her about her ...

Newly restored "The Tin Drum" coming to the Loft
Tucson Citizen
The powerfully symbolic drum at the center of this epic and sometimes shocking story has been vigorously debated and interpreted since Danzig native Günter Grass's debut novel of the same name made him world-famous, and it remains ambiguously ...

Germany's Postwar Nazi Cover-Up
Daily Beast
In 2006, Herwig was working as a reporter for Der Spiegel when he learned—along with the rest of the world—that Günter Grass, the Nobel-Prize winning author, had been a member of Hitler's S.S. in the Third Reich. Herwig promptly called Grass for an ...