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...amazing thing about stories is that they, in fact, travel,” novelist Chinua Achebe explains, using the term both figuratively and literally. “You let the story develop. You let the story begin. The story makes all kinds of preparations for its own arrival.”No one knows that truth better than Achebe. The Nigerian author, who currently teaches at Bard College, established himself as Nigeria’s literary ambassador to the Western world with his first novel, “Things Fall Apart,” published in 1959. This past Tuesday...
...cursor travels across the computer screen. “The goal of it was simplicity,” Wright says of The Warble’s interactive aspect, “because it sort of allows you to focus on one thing at a time, which is kind of cool, and also you don’t really know what you’re getting as it comes at you.” The first, and currently only, edition of The Warble features a webcomic, two poems, two short films, two short stories, and a picture drawn using Microsoft Paint...
...extent, so much is thrown at you at once on the Internet, and in a way that’s awesome and allows you to see so much different stuff, but it can be overwhelming at times,” he says. “It’s kind of cool to have both the broad spectrum of what the Internet can offer you and also a simple, elegant way to view...
...harnessed dancers walked down the sides of buildings and on rooftops—that received little critical attention at the time. “No one knew what I was doing because there was no name for it,” Brown said. “It was a kind of stupid tragedy. What do people say to you when they see a dance with no genre?” Yet Brown’s creative process is one that intentionally challenges categorization and constriction. She deconstructs movement. She reads poetry while choreographing. She draws with her feet. Brown cited...
...with the same outcome can vary in cost from one provider to the next by as much as 300 percent,” Baker said in a statement to the Globe. “There is no other sector of the economy anywhere in this country in which that kind of price variability with no appreciable difference in service or product quality can sustain itself...