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...undergraduate, Ceridwen Dovey ’03 never took a creative writing course and eschewed the Harvard literary scene. Instead, she ca me to fiction with the unique perspective of the anthropologist. Now a second-year Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at NYU, she’s having her debut novel “Blood Kin” published in 14 countries and has received sky-high accolades from the likes of J.M. Coetzee.“I wasn’t involved in The Advocate, The Signet, or any of those,” Dovey says...
...That is actually the magazine illustration for one of the first science fiction stories I published,” Gilbert says as he glances at the image...
After dropping out of high school and traveling around the country to muse over philosophical questions, Gilbert settled in Denver. By age 18, he was married and had a son and was writing science fiction stories on his typewriter. While he received encouraging feedback and sold some stories, he was honest with himself about his shortcomings: “I knew nothing about literature. I wasn’t even a good speller,” he recalls...
...enrolled in the course and enjoyed it so much that he signed up for more. “I found myself drifting more towards science than science fiction...
...PROFESSOR It’s Monday afternoon and jazz fusion is blaring as students amble into a Science Center lecture hall to attend back to Psychology. 1. They settle towards the front of the the room. A poster from an old science fiction movie is projected on the left side of the lecture hall. On the right, the students see a schedule for the day’s lecture. Suddenly, Porky Pig interrupts the music: “That’s allllllll folks!” Gilbert takes the stage. “There are a lot of things...