Not only do students receive a full scholarship but, like all keyboard students, Lang got his own Steinway grand in his rooms a far cry from the unheated hovel in downtown Beijing.

NEWYORKER: The Olympian

Her independent ways only get her in trouble, though, when a magic bean takes root underneath Jack's hovel and the entire shack goes right up, up and away, into the stratosphere, only stopping when it reaches the land of the giants.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

By the time Bridge arrived at the Frick mansion, a modern-day palace that its owner had vowed would make Carnegie's place look like a hovel, Bridge would have been beside himself, not only wondering as to the contents of the message he carried, but fearing the response of the man to whom it was addressed.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Meet You In Hell'

Told by Palin Ni Lap, a European-schooled economist from a small, unnamed South Asian country, stranded with his American wife in a peasant family's hovel during a monsoon, it seethes with the complex rage, pride and frustration of an educated third world aristo who can't find an easy place for himself at home or abroad.

CNN: 'Thirst' marks debut of 'major talent'