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...loud so you can hear how you tell stories.” Of writing about history, Harvard Professor of History Jill Lepore says, “Immerse yourself in the subject’s world and then immerse your reader in that world.” And Nicholas B. Lemann ’76 compares feature writing to “matching up the sound track and the visual track while watching a movie,” where the soundtrack is “an idea plot” and the visual is “the movement...
...been writing about the same thing for so long!” laughed one middle-aged alumnus to her companion, referring to her new book and its similarity to her senior thesis. Theses seemed to be a running joke among fellow grads. Just an hour earlier, Nicholas B. Lemann ’76 had asked the panel audience if he could “self-flagellate regarding my thesis a little,” making a disgusted face as he revealed that he wrote about “tragically doomed Southern liberals.” As it happens, masochism...
...Beyond the Gates,” a day-long symposium, celebrated History and Literature’s 100th anniversary. The event featured talks and panel discussions with graduates of the program, including New York Times columnist Frank Rich ’71, New Yorker staff writer Nicholas B. Lemann ’76, and former Clinton administration speechwriter Edward Widmer...
...August 14 issue of the New Yorker, Nicholas Lemann says, "Great citizen journalism is like the imagined Northwest Passage - it has to exist in order to prove that citizens can learn about public life without the mediation of professionals." If the measure of a successful citizen journalist is popularity, then Trent Vanegas comes out on top. Without any media background whatsoever, Vanegas has created a celebrity gossip blog - Pink Is the New Blog - that has become a favorite among celebrities, their publicists and the average American, bringing the blog over 200,000 visitors a month. Writing with tact, Vanegas fills...
...turning the other cheek” is a reaction explicitly recommended by her own religion. Perhaps we should be applauding Christians who have the wisdom to react this way rather than interpreting their lack of outrage as a sign that Christianity at Harvard is embattled and weak. ALEXANDER B. LEMANN ’06 April...