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...decided to sit down with a few to see how they did it. Bridie J. Clark ’99, author of “Because She Can”; Simon H. Rich ’06-’07, author of “Ant Farm and Other Desperate Situations”; and Keith A. Gessen ’97, one of the founding editors of the print journal “n+1,” sat down with FM and confirmed that our degrees are, in fact, useless. But don’t worry! Read...
...president of the Harvard Lampoon (which, due to a rivalry that even Rich doesn’t understand, must now be referred to as a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine), just published his first book, “Ant Farm: And Other Desperate Situations.” Full of short, comical stories, dialogues, and playlets, “Ant Farm” is gaining Rich praise from many readers, including Stewart, and comparison to another former Lampoon president, Conan O’Brien...
...ended. Puberty? Columbine? 9/11? But whatever the endpoint, hardly anyone disputes the premise: There is childhood, and then it’s over. The ending is generally seen as a premature and inauspicious development.The tragedy of childhood’s end is at the crux of “Ant Farm: And Other Desperate Situations,” the debut collection of comedic shorts by Simon Rich ’06–’07. From the second-grader who realizes that the Silent Game “isn’t actually fun?...
...various ecosystems. Wilson includes a compelling array of facts, but the true significance of these facts—and, indeed, the true worth of his book—lies in his anecdotal digressions. He recounts, with infectious enthusiasm, his decades-long investigation of the tropical fire ant, a pursuit that took him from the depths of Spanish colonial history to the expansive uplands of the modern Dominican Republic. Wilson island hops in the South Pacific, ferries out from the Florida Keys toward the Gulf of Mexico, and celebrates the remarkable recovery of the Mauritian kestrel. There is a subtle method...
...Ant Bully (PG: Time Warner, animated) * Material Girls (PG: Sony) * Talladega Nights (PG-13: Sony) * Pirates of the Caribbean 2 (PG-13: Disney) * Stay Alive (PG-13: Disney) * Superman Returns (PG-13: Time Warner) * You, Me and Dupree (PG-13: General Electric, Universal...