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Writer Nicholas F. DelBanco '63 told a Winthrop House audience last night of the danger of trivializing life in fiction...
...part of the Winthrop House Literary Series, DelBanco read his soon-to-be-published short story "The Writer's Trade," about Mark Fusco, a young author riding on a train that runs over a woman's body. The event leads to the protagonist's realization that his ambition to write great fiction can trivialize the very situations he depicts in his work...
...Fusco begins to learn that it is not all just grist for the mill," said DelBanco. He said the story grapples with the question of "how to live a life alone when urged by a secular power to succeed...
Apparently it is too late for Harvard's undergraduate English literature scholars to enjoy Mr. Watson's insights and intelligence, as he has left for the University of California at Los Angeles in much the same way that Andrew Delbanco, another tremendously talented literature teacher, went to Columbia University. It is still possible, however, to allow Mr. Brinkley and Mr. Lee to continue passing along their fascination with and vast knowledge of modern American history to the undergraduates whose education is, allegedly, a high priority for the University...
Students also expressed concern over the loss of the course and felt that Harvard should find a way to keep it in the core. "Delbanco is a good lecturer, although not one of the best, but [Outsider] is a good course, one that should be taught," said Rebecca A. Humenuk...