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...Girl Interrupted,” comment, Apr...
...Harvard College students than ever before are choosing to spend their summers abroad taking courses, researching honors theses, and working as interns and volunteers. It would be bad news if The Crimson was correct in reporting (“A Dry Summer For Grant Seekers,” news, Apr. 21) that many students have been unable to find the support and encouragement they need to carry out their summer plans abroad...
Perhaps, as Sahil Mahtani tells us (“The Eyes of Doctor Fitzgerald,” comment, Apr. 25), we do live in an age of restless materialism and social anomie. Perhaps, though the comparison is a touch facile, our coming of age in the irrationally exuberant 1990s is just as bankrupt as that of Tom and Daisy Buchanan of Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age. And it is quite likely, though I’ve never been to it, that the Fly’s annual Gatsby party is neither nostalgic nor ironic. Yet to read...
...writing to second Charles Drummond’s tolerant perspective on the controversy surrounding sophomore novelist Kaavya Viswanathan (“Girl Interrupted,” comment, Apr. 26). If a few plot points and a borrowed phrase every 10 pages constitute “literary identity theft”, as Tuesday’s statement from Random House alleges, few authors will escape whipping. With Chaucer and Boccaccio, Shakespeare and Holinshead, Robert Johnson and Skip James, why not Viswanathan and McCafferty? Any literary omelet worth its salt is likely to contain a few borrowed eggs...
...Girl Interrupted,” comment, Apr...