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...book to be called ‘How Fiction Works,’” Wood, who is also a literary critic for The New Yorker, joked. In fact, Wood’s intended title for the book—“The Nearest Thing To Life??—would have been in keeping with his lecture’s primary topic, the creation of vivid and effective characters in writing. Arguing against E.M. Forster’s distinction between flat and rounded characters, Wood said that both readers and writers should be concerned with...
There are not always words for these matters of life and death. All the clichés and all the trite slogans about enjoying life never seem true until the moments when we are confronted with life??s end. Sometimes you can’t do anything but hold tighter to what you have in the hope that it will stay in your arms for one more...
...introduction, Faust outlined the various steps that Harvard is taking to tackle this problem on both the institutional and individual levels of University life??from the formation of the Harvard Office of Sustainability to the 8,000 Harvard affiliates who signed a personal pledge last year to reduce their environmental impact...
...definite appeal as the viewer falls in love with characters who find themselves on a journey filled with allegorical obstacles. Too bad, then, that “Sex Drive,” the new movie from director Sean Anders, is the road trip as we know it in real life??the kind where you could care less about the drive. It’s the sort of road trip that gave birth to the phrase, “Are we there yet?” Although “Sex Drive” produces a few memorable scenes...
...thrives on its own diversity. From the hodgepodge album cover to the varied track list, T.I. shows himself to be a much more capable crossover artist than he previously demonstrated. He works well with Rihanna and Justin Timberlake on poppy tracks like “Live Your Life?? and “Dead and Gone.” He flaunts his successes and riches with the best of them, and gives us some mindless beats for those club nights. But he also manages to infuse some newfound morality into the whole mix. And, on the whole, it comes...