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...finally, I'm delighted to announce the debut of our new cartoon page, Drawing Room, which is edited by Matthew Diffee. Diffee is one of the most talented and original cartoonists around, and his work appears frequently in the New Yorker and elsewhere. He'll be curating and contributing to the page, tapping the minds and pens of the best cartoonists in America...
...with the burden of hindsight, one sees that Infinite Jest is ominously infested with suicides, including that of the hero's father, who cooks his own head in a microwave. But back then, Wallace seemed invulnerable. How could a man who had put such crowds of people on the page--Wallace's ear for dialogue was unmatched in contemporary fiction--truly be lonely? Once you've gone inside the mind of a critically burned toddler, as Wallace did in his short story "Incarnations of Burned Children," what horrors can't you face? When he accepted a professorship of creative writing...
...David Foster Wallace only on the page. His first agent suggested that he use his middle name, to distinguish him from another David Wallace, and it stuck. Born in 1962 and raised in Illinois, he was a competitive junior tennis player--at 14 he was ranked 17th in the Midwest. He studied philosophy at Amherst College and then Harvard, and when he was only 24, he published his first novel, The Broom of the System. In 1996 he vaulted into the upper ranks of the literary world with Infinite Jest, his 1,079-page (and 388-footnote) meta-epic...
...among other things. Harvard has seen its fair share of new and sensational publications, from the ill-fated Scene to the pseudo-erotic H-Bomb, but never anything quite like this. In fact, I wonder if the world has ever seen a magazine featuring a nine-page interview with its editor, complete with nude photographs. Questions ranging from what effect the nude spread will have on di Pasquale’s future career prospects to why he chose to mention that his ex-girlfriend thought his “splooge tasted like unripe bananas” are dwarfed...
...over it.” Justin Smith of InsideFacebook.com, a blog that covers the company, said he views New Facebook as a definite improvement for application developers, whose products are now able to publish updates directly on users’ profiles. “The profile page is becoming one big feed that shows your activity on the site,” he said. “People can now learn about you based on what you’ve been doing instead of what you write yourself.” In exchange for more space in the main feed...