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...interesting. I read “Jacques Le Fataliste” after that. I liked them both.LD: We don’t have to prioritize. DD: That’s right. “Jacques Le Fataliste” is so interesting. This is the first kind of adult novel I’d ever read. I thought “Gee.” I wanted to read more stuff like this. And Stern talks a lot about his favorite authors, and if he had said his favorite authors were... Chaucer, I probably would have become an English major...
...industry not usually associated with the Harvard brand name.“There’s a persistent stereotype that Harvard isn’t about pleasure. It’s about brains,” said Michele S. Jaffe ’91. Now an author of young adult novels, Jaffe entered the world of fiction through her romance novels, which Amazon.com called “steamy… Do not lend this to your mother.”“The sex scenes are designed to turn you on,” she said. For Jaffe...
...interested in communications. So I can definitely imagine doing this as a hobby,” he says.Marie K. Rutkoski, who received her Ph.D in English at Harvard, thinks differently about the children’s literature market. The author of last year’s young adult novel “The Cabinet of Wonders” and an assistant professor at Brooklyn College, Rutkoski found that getting hired in academia was harder than getting published. “In some ways, getting published in children’s literature is a little more open than publishing adult literature...
...industry not usually associated with the Harvard brand name.“There’s a persistent stereotype that Harvard isn’t about pleasure. It’s about brains,” said Michele S. Jaffe ’91. Now an author of young adult novels, Jaffe entered the world of fiction through her romance novels, which Amazon.com called “steamy… Do not lend this to your mother.”“The sex scenes are designed to turn you on,” she said. For Jaffe...
Researchers at Harvard Medical School have discovered that adult humans do in fact possess a type of beneficial fat—previously thought to only be present in babies, young children, and other small mammals—that burns calories instead of storing them. The discovery was made simultaneously by three independent research teams in Boston, the Netherlands, Finland, and Sweden. Brown fat and its potentially crucial role in warding off obesity has since been the subject of three articles in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Unlike its counterpart white fat, a mere two ounces...