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...water, making it easier for other species to snatch their own food and for the larvae of those species to stay closer to the mother colonies that feed them. "We call [corals] the engineers of the ecosystem," says Ribes. "Without them, other invertebrates won't be able eat either. It's a chain reaction...
...similar advice for writers too is that there’s so much a media thing of “Oh, the hot new first novel!”...and then the writer gets forgotten. Most of the greatest writers take 20 years to find their voice, and they either will or will not become well-known later. Read as widely as possible. I think too many American writers don’t read enough foreign literature and just go to some writing program and just read the latest stories in the New Yorker. So I think reading more widely...
...home in the Lit concentration. It may be a smaller concentration than its peers, with about 50 concentrators in 2007, but like the other fiction concentrations it allows students to construct their own specialized field of inquiry. The emphasis in the Lit department is on cross-cultural comparisons, so either come in with some foreign language skills or be prepared to learn some. Along with its Hist & Lit, its cousin concentration, Lit has a foreign literature requirement and encourages concentrators to study abroad for a semester—so you’ll probably leave Harvard worldlier than you came...
...fall, that you’d…”“Yeah, I don’t speak French,” I say, and we both laugh for just under a second.“I don’t either, really. I’ve just been taking a course to keep myself in shape.”“In shape?”“I mean, I’m doing a ballet course too. Just to keep busy.”Both of our sets of eyes are glazed...
...language is simple. The books are short. But Ted Geisel—Dr. Seuss—spent 18 months wrestling with ‘The Cat and the Hat,’” she points out. “A poem isn’t easy either, but it’s short.”“Then again, Margaret Wise Brown wrote ‘Goodnight Moon’ in a morning,” she adds.Back in her “Childhood” class, Tatar introduces a guest lecturer: Newbery Medal recipient Lois...