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...From the outset, the Pilots shook Crimson nerves with an aggressive doubles performance. At No. 2, the combination of Felton and junior Michael Hayes crashed to an 8-3 defeat to Portland’s Joel Kincaid and Nikoloz Kurdadze. Against the Pilot’s Hernandez and Nick Wales, No. 3 partnership Omodele-Lucien and freshman Davis Manghan fought back from 5-0 down, but ultimately fell in an 8-6 loss. The point already lost by Harvard, the No. 1 duo of Clayton and sophomore Alexei Chijoff-Evans fell 8-5—much...
...Jamaica Kincaid, world-renowned author of short stories, novels and essays, has finally returned to Harvard after a recent sabbatical. Back as a visiting lecturer, Kincaid dishes on plant collecting, the future of British journalists, and how to write—and live—well.1. FM: What’s your writing process? Do you sit down at your desk, and know exactly where your story will take you?JK: I sit down at my desk and I know it will be difficult in this way and difficult in that way. Every book has a different process. You think...
...killed many people and, before Yalini was born, threatened to kill the family of Yalini’s father. Thus, Yalini’s relationship with tradition is a complex one, simultaneously embracing and menacing.The novel’s sparse sentences and luscious imagery are reminiscent of Jamaica Kincaid, who was Ganeshananthan’s English thesis advisor at Harvard. Ganeshananthan admits in her acknowledgments that Kinkaid’s “particular brand of meticulous attention continues to be the standard for which I strive,” and there are multiple moments when Ganeshananthan soars...
...taught by then-lecturer Patricia E. Powell. “Being in a writing class and being able to write consistently told me that this is what I wanted. I said, I’m going to try and do this,” Iweala said. Visiting Lecturer Jamaica Kincaid, who currently teaches English Cvr, “Fiction Writing,” was Iweala’s thesis adviser. “I’m very proud of him,” Kincaid said. “You never know how these things work, you know. I knew...
...English. But despite this functional autonomy, the creative writing program remains formally included within the larger English family.“English concentrators have to fulfill a certain number of requirements and they come [to my courses] very well versed in literary styles,” says Jamaica Kincaid, who teaches fiction writing as visiting professor on African and African American Studies and on English and American Literature and Language. “A writer can’t write without reading and knowing literature.” HEART OF DARKNESSNonetheless, Harvard’s handful of creative writing offerings...