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...Fiction is an extrapolation of dreams and nightmares,” Nye says. “Some are exaggerated from my own experience, others happened to other people. The nice thing about it is it allows you to explore these dreams more fully...
...book is read by people interested in foreign policy, but at a different angle than that to which they are accustomed. “When you read something in academic prose it’s like the script of a film,” he says. “Fiction increases the impact of the words. Some words that would be cool and passionless appear different when set on the edge of a cliff or in the middle of a storm. It allows you to generate tension and passion...
Although she has yet to graduate, Julia C. Wong ’05 already knows well the business of imaginative writing. In fact, the Leverett House resident serves as the Fiction Editor of the Harvard Advocate, frequently enrolls in fiction workshops and is even pursuing a creative thesis under the guidance of the legendary author of fiction Jamaica Kincaid. This week, the English and American Literature and Language concentrator took a brief break from her literary business for some time under the “Spotlight,” sharing her thoughts on her development as a writer at Harvard...
Being on the Advocate, and especially being the Fiction Editor, has been the most important thing I’ve done at Harvard. I can’t describe how much I love the people, the building, the endless Sunday and Wednesday nights wrangling over pieces, or even the excitement of seeing a new set of boxes, with the newest issue, line the hallway...
...really love to read other people’s work. It’s inspiring to see what other students are writing, and it’s really fun to be able to provide comments and criticisms, which will hopefully help those writers. As Fiction Editor, I’ve been spoiled because I have the chance to read so much of what is being written on campus, and there is always something I can learn from every piece I read...