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...Viswanathan’s book, now on sale at Harvard Bookstore and the Coop, is called “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life.” It is about an over-achieving Indian girl in her senior year of high school, whose lifelong goal to attend Harvard is derailed when the Dean of Admissions finds out she has no friends and doesn’t know how to have fun. Despite Opal’s impeccable resumé, the dean basically tells her that she’s too nerdy for college...
...story—a fairy tale, more or less, built on archetypal stock characters and a simplistic, familiar plot. And if readers—particularly readers who go to school with her—associate the real Kaavya Viswanathan with the caricature she has created in Opal Mehta, the shadow of her novel may prove to be a hard one to overcome...
Makes sense, since big numbers are what Harvard’s all about: Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 will see the publication of her debut novel, “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life” on April 1. Movie rights have been sold to DreamWorks, making the $500,000 advance Viswanathan got for the book sound like little knuckles... Speaking of which, the new issue of The Harvard Lampoon, edited by Farley T. Katz ’06 and former Lampoon president Simon H. Rich...
...that much use.” The House replaced the pediment and put a door stop to prevent the slamming, but Lowell administrators think that ten years from now, with the possibility of increased traffic flow, it could fall again, outgoing Lowell House Committee (HoCo) Co-chair Neil K. Mehta ’06 said. Swipe access to the gate will be limited to Lowell residents in order to maintain not only its structural stability, but also to maintain the peace and security of the House, Eck said. “We don’t want Lowell House...
Harvard sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 got in, got $500,000, and got a film deal. Her debut novel, called “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,” will be available in bookstores this spring. The book, which tracks an academically-driven girl of Indian descent as she learns to loosen up, has already been picked up by DreamWorks Studios, who is in talks with Viswanathan about a film adaptation. Contrafilm and Alloy Entertainment will produce, according to Variety. The joint English and American Literature and Language and Economics...