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...Dara Horn ’99, GSAS ’06 in her second novel “The World to Come,” no doubt cast Ben in the role of trivia-master for several reasons. He is a grown-up child prodigy, and is struggling to rediscover that knowledgeable ease that he outgrew along with his high school clothes and adolescent scoliosis. He is small and unassuming, and needs a way to express his strength. But perhaps the most important reason is that Horn’s entire book is built on questions behind questions, on stories...
...much as these stories enrich one another, they also add weight, and occasionally the accumulation becomes more than the novel can bear. Horn writes in slyly beautiful prose—a forest at sunset can suddenly become “a drawstring bag…tightening the early evening sky with wrinkles of naked branches”—but the movements between storylines often feel heavy and imposed. But when Ben comes home from the museum and looks at the Chagall painting (a study of a man floating over a city), we read that Ben himself feels...
...World to Come By Dara Horn '99 W.W. Norton...
...over the last year she came out of her shell a bit. We were in a surplus store and she saw an air horn behind the counter. She said, "Look dad, doesn't that look like something we could use to wake up [Jackass director] Jeff Tremaine with?" I was so touched and proud - I was like, "Awww, she wrote her first...
...Mahon said. “She really just knows how to put the ball away.” Crimson freshmen did their part to contribute to the win. Libero Katherine Kocurek notched 16 digs, setter Lily Durwood dished out 26 assists, and right-side hitter Chelsea Ono Horn added five kills and four assists. “Our freshmen have done a wonderful job,” Weiss noted. “They fit right into the system that we are running and they really work well in the group that we have.” Harvard continues...