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Just spotted a suspicious looking person wearing shades and a trench coat hiding out behind Sever with what looked like a gun? Or someone crouching in the bushes of Quincy courtyard clasping a giant foam noodle? No need to get weirded out and call HUPD—FlyBy assures you (with reasonable certainty) that these people aren’t hitmen or lunatics, but are simply engaged in the game of Assassins...
...Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and a Whiting Writers Award. However, for all the attention paid to him within the world of letters, here at Harvard, he might as well be the man Ralph Ellison’s title refers to. As a Harvard undergraduate, Whitehead did not call attention to himself. As he admitted to the Crimson in 2003, he “didn’t say anything.” Though he completed his coursework, he was not an exceptional student nor was he a central player in the publication scene on campus, eschewing the traditional...
...idea for a book on L.A. insider life to the HarperCollins editor at that party. According to Kaplan, the editor was encouraging and she secured a meeting to pitch her book in the form of a 20-page preview. The day after her meeting, she said, she got a call: HarperCollins wanted her book. Contract secured, Kaplan spent the next two years working on her novel, working closely with her editor throughout the process to develop the book. At the same time, though, Kaplan was also juggling the hectic high school career of the usual Harvard student...
...write about a lonely, tax-delinquent business owner who would call you sometimes just to talk. Did people often lean on you emotionally...
...subtle, it took a long time to wake up to the fact I'd become a different person. When I first started, there was no way I would call someone on the phone and pretend to be someone else. By the end of it, I was perfectly willing to pick up the phone and pretend to be someone's high school classmate in order to find a taxpayer...