Word: harperã
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...friend and roommate Danny writes for the Style section of the Sun and introduces Vicky to a man that he was once attracted to with the affirmation that this mystery man once wrote for Rumpus, Yale’s humor mag. Mystery man is a washed-out writer for Harper??s and the only man alive who knows more showtune lyrics than Vicky. They laugh a lot and dance ontop of bars. One year later at their orthodox wedding, Vicky sings “Nothing’s Gonna Stop...
...received critical acclaim and was recently made into a film starring Cameron Diaz and Jordana Brewster. Look At Me, her second novel, is the product of more than five years of work. As a contributor to publications such as The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker and Harper??s, Egan has written frequently on issues of image, identity and technology. Much of the research for these articles handily doubled as research for the novel...
...Salman Rushdie’s Fury is his first novel since he received his new, fatwa-free lease on life, and is set in New York City; Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections is his first novel since he so boldly claimed in the pages of Harper??s to have the secret to reviving American fiction. Both deal with life in America at the turn of the century, both are preoccupied by the angst of simply coping with daily life and both offer their own unique conceptions of what it means to live in contemporary America. It?...
...Comparisons to other authors included Updike, Irving and DeLillo, and some even speculated that Franzen might prove himself to be a successor to the likes of DeLillo and Pynchon. But another reason that people are paying so much attention to Franzen’s newest novel is the 1996 Harper??s piece in which he lamented the state of American fiction and argued that the way to save the American novel from irrelevancy was to connect “the personal and the social,” to write about the lives of individual characters while also saying...
When one looks at the altered covers of Mirabella, Harper??s Bazaar and Town and Country, the construction of the cover art becomes the central focus. The clarity, color and composition of the image is what commands the onlooker’s attention, rather than the headlines emblazoned along the margins of the page. Udé has also modified the headlines of the articles contained within the magazines to evoke the main themes present within his entire body of art work. Such fictitious articles include: “A Short History of Beauty...