Word: fictions
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...five hundred year old secret, one violent campus murder throws two college seniors into a whirlwind of mystery, betrayal and discovery. Set on Princeton’s campus, The Rule of Four, by Princeton alum Ian Caldwell and Dustin E. Thomason ’98, blends fact and fiction around one of the most rare, yet least understood books of the Renaissance period, the Hynerotomachia Poliphili...
...tries to help you. As a writer, I’m not too big on writerly responsibilities. I think a writer’s only responsibility is telling the truth as they see it, and even then that’s only for non-fiction writing. I wrote Blue Blood for myself as a way to remember what we do as cops in a bad neighborhood in a big city—it’s a personal memoir, a history...
...went to a couple of talks, including a fiction reading where only three people showed up. This reminded me of all the professors I talked to who say that no one ever shows up for office hours. It illustrated, like the whole two weeks (and 4 years, really) have as well that there are these immense resources being totally ignored...
Harvard must be a light bulb for pulp fiction moths. Over the years, Erich Segal’s Love Story, Pam Thomas-Brown’s A Darker Shade of Crimson, Jane Harvard’s The Student Body and hundreds of other not-quite-Faulkner caliber books have been set at Harvard. Now Carlotta Carlyle, the red-headed, fast-talking Boston detective and long-running serial mystery protagonist, is walking the campus beat...
Harvard is developing a firm corner on the high-drama university-set frothy fiction market. In order to avoid this literary legacy, Barnes advises future scribes: “Set it at Yale...