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Getting a cancer diagnosis is a stressful and shocking experience. But is it stressful enough to increase a patient's risk of suicide and heart attack...
Eudora Welty once wrote, “What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not myself. It is the act of a writer’s imagination that I set the most high.” Lorrie Moore admires Welty and, on a vacation to Jackson, Mississippi took a photo of Welty’s house for her scrapbook. She appears to have retained Welty’s words as well. In her newest novel, “A Gate...
Although Moore’s tone is usually straightforward and conversational, she is at heart a writer deeply concerned with language, and many of Tassie’s insights about life in Troy are born from observations about local idiom. When a character drops the word “hogwash,” Tassie deadpans, “I had once seen a hog washed. In whey. The hog was Helen, and she really liked it, the slop of the whey, then later a cool hose.” Her constant language-play calls attention to the separate vernaculars...
These three consecutive numbers form the beating heart of the band’s new musical philosophy. “Romance is Boring” is a work of literate, deeply emotional rock which treads a careful line between the band’s two primary influences: the raw, noisy, unpredictability of Xiu Xiu and their ilk, and the listenability of early 90s indie...
...think our game plan is to go with a simple three period win,” McDonald said in an email. “Although, if it did have to come down to triple overtime with BC, I can promise you I would pour my heart and soul into getting that goal for Harvard this time...