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...undergraduate, Ceridwen Dovey ’03 never took a creative writing course and eschewed the Harvard literary scene. Instead, she ca me to fiction with the unique perspective of the anthropologist. Now a second-year Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at NYU, she’s having her debut novel “Blood Kin” published in 14 countries and has received sky-high accolades from the likes of J.M. Coetzee.“I wasn’t involved in The Advocate, The Signet, or any of those,” Dovey says...
Keith A. Gessen ’97 is one of the founding editors of the literary-political journal n+1 and author of the novel “All the Sad Young Literary Men.” In a recent interview with The Crimson, Gessen discussed Harvard, critical theory, and the role that literature has played in his life. The Harvard Crimson: I’d like to start off by thinking about the somewhat strange and unsatisfying journeys your characters take to something approaching success and self-understanding. What were your post-collegiate years like?Keith Gessen: When...
...imagine that there was probably a novel within Hank that would have worked its way out,” Wigdahl said. “He had a love for language and communication and a love for what words mean. It was a very E.B. White-esque, concise and clever and funny and rich way of communicating...
...America, but, as his book-flap biography points out, he was born in Russia. And though the fact of his birth does not make him a “Russian writer,” the utmost seriousness with which he approaches literature, very clearly on display in his debut novel, “All the Sad Young Literary Men,” does establish him as a writer in the Russian model. It is not that Gessen sees no room for levity in “Literary Men”—rest assured, there are plenty...
...intersection of war and love is a strange place,” says the narrator of “Love Marriage,” the debut novel of V. V. Ganeshananthan ‘02, a former Crimson managing editor. While certainly not a new and innovative idea, Ganeshananthan draws the reader into this “strange place” in a poetic and informative fashion. Through beautiful language and memorable characters, Ganeshananthan creates a world that, while not completely original, provides insight into the unique experiences of Sri Lankan Tamil immigrants. Just as authors like Gabriel Garc?...