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...message? After a Disney sing-a-long, rapscallions barged into the Kong circa 3:45 and demanded the evening’s leftovers. Found: condom wrappers in Widener stacks and on the steps of Widener. It has been unseasonably warm. Best g-chat away messages: “Jamaica Kincaid forgot it was Martin Luther King Day. Amazing.” and “my second time in this neighborhood without my numchucks. i am not happy.” Get an umbrella...
Tilting our way across Quincy Street we come upon the Barker Center. Here, students can take creative writing courses with luminaries of fiction such as Jamaica Kincaid, Steven Pinker, L. Ron Hubbard, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. At this point, we will break for lunch. We usually recommend the best bacon cheeseburger in the square, the “Alan Dershowitz” at Bartley’s. Before breaking bread, we make sure to lead the group in a good ol’-fashioned Harvard prayer, so we face the B-school and genuflect five times to the gods...
...plans to be a writer in some capacity after graduating from Oxford, and she attributes much of her success to “the opportunity to work with very talented writers and critics of literature, in particular professors Jamaica Kincaid, Elaine Scarry, and Helen Vendler...
...surprised at all,” Kincaid said of her mentee’s book deal. “She was one of my best students.” That’s profound praise considering that Kincaid, a former staff writer for the New Yorker who now teaches English as well as African and American Studies at Harvard, is herself an award-winning author...
Ganeshananthan had the opportunity to pursue an independent study in creative writing with Kincaid in her sophomore year. “She wouldn’t let me slide by,” Ganeshananthan said of Kincaid. “Not that anyone would choose an independent study intending to slide by, but, at the time, I was trying on different styles. When I found the right material, she was very encouraging...