Word: authoring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...That doesn't include translation rights in nearly as many countries as you can fly to from Heathrow. The book's timely title, Londonstani, reflects the public concern - heightened by last July's London suicide bombings - over Britain's growing Muslim and South Asian character. The 29-year-old author, Gautam Malkani, is dripping with street cred, having grown up in Hounslow before moving on to a Cambridge degree and a senior job in journalism. The novel is written in an imaginative mix of English, Punjabi, Urdu, profanity, gangsta rap and mobile-phone texting. (As in, "Shudn't b callin...
...with Melville, who was born Jean-Pierre Grumbach a generation before the French New Wave, which revered him, and took as his nom de cinema the name of the author of Moby Dick . It was intended as an homage to the things American that he admired - most particularly genre crime films. It is therefore an irony that his work is so little known in the United States, though Bob LeFlambeur, released here in the ?80s, about robbing the take at a Deauville casino, is the greatest heist movie I?ve ever seen. It is more than an irony...
...e-mail.The legal gravity of the drug involved, in addition, will make no difference—Ellison noted that “the fact that it is a controlled and illegal substance is all that matters.” TOKE’N EFFECTThe Aid Elimination Penalty’s author and primary proponent, Congressman Mark E. Souder (R-Ind.), told USA Today in 2000 that the penalty’s purpose would be to “deter students from using and selling drugs.”The law has since drawn fire from experts in various fields?...
...editors: Re: “A Tarnished Opal,” editorial, Apr. 27. I am a parent who toured Harvard with my daughter. I remember exactly where I was standing when the guide told us that the freshman class included an author who was published at age 17 and is working on her second book. My heart froze, it took my breath away. A voice inside my head said “we don’t belong here—she cannot compete with these students.” During the senior year my daughter served...
Perhaps one of the most frequently discussed aspects of the Opal Mehta controversy, and one of the most divisive, is the possibility of disciplinary action against its author, Kaavya Viswanathan ’08, by the Administrative Board of the College. Had her work been submitted for course credit, there would be no question that the Ad Board should act, whether or not the offense was intentional. But the current situation raises important questions about the distinction between a student’s academic career and personal life, and what the limits of the College’s disciplinary jurisdiction...