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...after a semester’s worth of writing workshops with Bret Johnston and years of serious literary ammo from Dana Palmer House in my back pocket, I came home to a major case of writer’s block. My expectations were high, and I couldn’t deliver. Would I write the next Great American Novel? Could I do it in the next few months? Not at the rate I was going...
...nearly doubling his goal total and increasing his steal count.But Harvard’s season would have amounted to nothing without a remarkable group of freshmen. Initially counted on to provide energy and depth, the freshmen exceeded expectations and found themselves in critical roles throughout the year. Freshman Bret Voith, who arguably had one of the most impressive rookie seasons of the year for any Harvard athlete, exploded onto the collegiate water polo scene with 41 goals, 21 assists, and 27 steals—gaudy numbers for a water polo player at any stage of his career.His stellar season reached...
...which portrayed the broken world of a gambler. That film’s narrative fell apart by trying to weave together too many loose ends; “Deal” collapses at the other extreme, failing to explore the inner lives of its characters and trudging along slowly. Bret Harrison moves from a string of TV sitcom appearances to the big screen as Alex Stillman, a recent Yale graduate who pursues his dream of becoming a professional poker player. But his easy success in online poker tournaments does not translate to the professional poker circuit until he unexpectedly meets...
...Zealand’s formerly fourth-most famous guitar-based digi-bongo a capella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo have finally put out their first full-length album, and though it’s all laughs, it’s nothing new from Bret and Jemaine. For fans of their hit TV show “Flight of the Conchords,” their eponymous debut album will likely just be sort of a season-in-song disc, but for those unfamiliar with the HBO series the laughs might be a little out of context. With the new season right...
...being from Corpus Christi, Texas doesn’t already make Bret A. Johnston a celeb, he has just published his second book entitled “Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer.” He has also contributed to various anthologies, is regularly featured on National Public Radio, and currently directs Harvard’s Creative Writing Program. In 2006 he was named one of the National Book Foundation’s “5 under 35” gifted young writers, which means that he’s also really young...