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Four years after Ben-Shahar self-released his book via iUniverse, he is teaching the largest course on campus and his agent is looking for a trade publisher to reprint “The Question of Happiness.” His class, Psychology 1508, “The Psychology of Leadership,” boasts an enrollment of 842 students...
...rise from self-publishing author to being represented by an agent and awaiting a contract with a publishing house, Ben-Shahar said, “I waited for an opportunity that came...
...typical Alloy book is farmed out to a contract writer, but Viswanathan (who declined to comment for this article) came to them. A college-admissions counselor liked her writing at 17 and put her in touch with the William Morris Agency. Her agent suggested she work with Alloy to develop a reader-friendly concept. Coincidentally, she and Alloy hit on a tale about an Indian-American teen who applies to Harvard, is told she has to prove she has a social life, hatches a plan to get one but realizes she has made a mistake by trying to be someone...
...Pretty or smart.") Viswanathan said she had read McCafferty but called herself the victim of a photographic memory. "Somewhere in her mind, she crossed an invisible line with this material and didn't realize that the words so easy and available to her were not her own," says her agent, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh...
...contrast to Hilles, University Hall lies in the middle of Harvard Yard, which is the historic, symbolic, and literal center of our community. Proximity to Harvard Yard is an indicator of the value with which Harvard regards a building’s occupants—as any real estate agent knows, the key is location, location, location. Given the recent rhetoric about the college’s efforts to improve student satisfaction, exiling student groups to the remote Quad (while an ever-growing administration sits comfortably in the most desirable location on campus) seems counter-intuitive. Should we believe that...