Word: ah
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...AH: I happened upon the idea. It had been brewing in my head for a few weeks. Applying for a creative thesis had always been in the back of my head. I didn’t think I would get it but once I had the idea I figured...
...AH: My influences writing this thesis have been Henry James, Aimee Bender, Haruki Murakami, Marguerite Duras, Hitchcock’s Vertigo and Russian patricidal literature (my father thinks he’s going to be the “bad guy” in the story, but I don’t think there’ll be any daddy-killing...
...AH: My older brother was very much into Dostoevsky and was always pushing him onto me when I was a kid and making parallels between the literary characters and our own family members. The problem is, as I became obsessed with these family stories like O’Neill’s A Long Day’s Journey into Night, for example, or Terry Zwigoff’s documentary about Robert Crumb and his family, all the characters became blurred and sometimes it’s hard to remember if Smerdyakov really is my brother...
...AH: One author I like says that the emotions are autobiographical but the events are not. When my friends read my stories they always think the main character is me—they think that my self-absorption is taken to a new level and my stories are peopled by multiple versions of me talking to each other. But this is not true. Well it’s less true these days. My writing will inevitably be personal because it’s either something I experienced, or someone has related to me, or how I envision or interpret...
...will advance to the gates of Kabul within two weeks," predicts a senior rebel officer. Sources told Time that the Alliance, which is outnumbered 2 to 1 by Taliban forces around Kabul, has asked for close air support from American attack helicopters. So far, the Pentagon has demurred, but AH-64 Apache choppers are already suspected to be in the region, with A-10s on the way. If U.S. gunships take to the skies above Kabul, the Taliban will likely raid what is left of their stash of 250 antiaircraft Stinger missiles--arms sent to the mujahedin...