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...have with the college admissions process—the flaws of which were in fact highlighted by this very accusation of plagiarism. Just as copies of how-to guides on every aspect of application season seem to fly off of Barnes and Noble shelves each fall, these works of fiction sell as spiritual companions of sorts—comprehensive accounts of day-to-day pre-college life that are more satisfying and inspiring than being bluntly told to study for your SAT-IIs and get going on that cure for cancer (or, novel, as the case may be). SARAH CHARRON...
...soft, bookish, effeminate. After getting his degree, Malkani spent years trying to turn his dissertation into a nonfiction book. "But my job made it tough, and every time I started to work on the book, it all seemed dull and boring," he says. "I found it easier to write fiction. In fact, it was fun." What he found especially satisfying was that, in the decade since his dissertation, the desi rudeboy culture had grown less threatening, more universal. "I started going to desi nights at London clubs and found that white kids were now welcome," he says. "The beauty...
...problem is that in fiction, let alone life, the singular self does matter. Trying to make a Jersey boy who shares Roth's cultural background and birth year (1933) into an archetype, effacing his individuality, inhibits the reader from feeling the protagonist's loss emotionally, rather than just intellectually. (And denying him a name creates pronoun confusion whenever "he" talks to another man.) That Everyman's hero dies is universal. How he dies is not: he is alone, isolated from his brother, sons and ex-wives because of his traits and choices--often selfish, childish ones--but Roth has sketched...
Recognizing The Da Vinci Code as fiction, I was surprised to learn that Opus Dei actually exists. But your description of the society as secretive was really not fair. People who pray regularly have a quiet confidence that God knows them. Avoiding a public show of faith is not being secretive. CLEMENT SILVA Bangalore, India
...Bomb is really a lit and arts magazine,” Cieplak-von Baldegg says. “It’s about sexuality, but we have a wide variety of written content,” including poetry, fiction, and student artwork...