Word: novelization
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...professor of modern languages in 1836 and laid much of the foundation for comparative language study at Harvard. He often battled with the administration to do so, according to Matthew Pearl ’97, author of “The Dante Club,” a murder mystery novel that includes Longfellow and his literary cadre as characters. In an interview with The Crimson, Pearl said Longfellow served as “an ambassador for fine literature” at Harvard. Even though the poet was not a professor of literature, he “transformed the educational culture...
Bestselling author Dave Eggers, whose most recent book is a fictionalized memoir of a Sudanese refugee, and Valentino Achak Deng, the refugee who inspired the novel, emphasized the power of the written word in educating the public about genocide in Darfur in a conversation at Memorial Church yesterday. The two men fielded questions about how they wrote the book, titled “What is the What,” and Eggers’ choice to relate Valentino’s story through a novel rather than through a traditional nonfiction medium. Such a decision, Eggers explained, came after prolonged...
...even want to be in an academic setting immediately after turning in that 150-page senior thesis? Our message to those newly minted or aspiring applicants is simple: Beware of the lure of the Rhodes title. Reconsider that year working for an non-governmental organization abroad or writing a novel. Do not apply for the Rhodes unless you are ready to study and live in Oxford...
...celebrity; now, being a celebrity gets you a book deal. Bookstores abound with middling memoirs that made it through publishing houses because of the author’s name recognition. Of course, some celebrities do write “real” books. Jimmy Carter wrote a novel that, to most reports, wasn’t half bad, though it does have a sex scene (a disturbing thought). A whole bevy of celebrities, from Jodie Foster to Jamie Lee Curtis, have written children’s books. Not all approve of these celebrity compositions. The MotherReader blog argues...
...comes to modern marriage. Like so many seemingly fixed or imposed beliefs, hejab can be tinkered with for the sake of an attractive marriage proposal. In the Iran of today, where marrying "up" to improve one's social or financial standing is more imperative than in a Jane Austen novel, women commonly adjust their head covering to match their prospective partner's degree of religiosity...