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...inflated expectations about how one will advance a career,” he says. “Workshops should probably be regarded as personal, not professional opportunities.” Still, Harvard offers a wide array of avenues for a writer. “Harvard is full of great ideas and people,” Bennett says. For aspiring writers, he recommends concentrating in “something other than creative writing to gain an idea of another field, which would improve you as a writer.” Bennett also argues against the idea of establishing an MFA program...
...it’s changing back soon.”“Back?”“Yeah, I meet with the divorce lawyer on Tuesday morning.”“Oh, wow, I’m sorry, I had no idea.”“Yeah it’s okay. Andrew doesn’t talk about it.”“Yeah.”I’m about to ask some drunk, stupid question about if she was up at a bed and breakfast in Vermont...
...thinking that all I needed was some kind of a sign. Some heavenly sign that would give me the courage and fortitude to complete my mission. And then it came. I saw Katie look in my direction. If she actually looked directly at me, I have no idea, because I instantly sent my gaze to the floor. But she looked in my direction nonetheless. That was the sign I was looking for. The green light. I decided that right after class got out, I would go home a different way. I would go home the way she went home. Then...
...racial and ethnic identity in an academic setting. “People end up talking in dorm rooms or over this kind of food, which are very powerful media,” she said over a table of desserts from Finale’s. “But the idea of finding an academic home for these kinds of conversations is important.” Both Carpio and Desai said that an ethnic studies curriculum would have to be interdisciplinary. “I think that’s part of the richness of what ethnic studies could bring...
...Creature”—a twisted, witty poem about a boy who gets revenge on some bullies with the help of a fuzzy, hungry monster. The Israeli-born Kimel suspects that observers see a paradox in a Harvard-educated children’s author but waves the idea away, viewing his alma mater as a logical step towards such writing; it was children’s literature, after all, that awoke his love of learning.“In the beginning there were stories,” says Germanic Languages Professor Maria Tatar, chair of the Folklore...