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...Option III, doubt about the merits of creative writing lingered. In 1979, Director of Expository Writing Richard Marius cancelled the only fiction offering, Expository Writing 13, even though it was the most popular section. He was concerned that fiction courses failed to teach students how to write expository prose. Although the decision was met with outrage by many students and even some Expository Writing preceptors, the course was never reinstated.Option III was eventually replaced by today’s creative writing program. The program functions largely as an autonomous body: The creative writing faculty makes most of their administrative decisions...
...essays is a dense, layered piece that is as much of an enigma as the subjects explored therein. This book is not meant to be read in a day, a week, or even a month. Each of these essays needs substantial time for digesting Trachtenberg’s complex prose and even more complex ideas. In a literary era when so much non-fiction writing focuses on issues that polarize readers—global warming, decaying moral values, political corruption, and the like—Trachtenberg uncovers the small and forgotten parts of our past that have helped forge...
...week of Valentine's Day. It's no surprise to find Lovingyou.com, a love poem and romantic advice site, is one of the most clicked-on Google results. When searching on "love poems" you can find countless collections of classic love poems or even writers who offer customized romantic prose...
DIED. Whitney Balliett, 80, dean of jazz criticism, mostly for the New Yorker, whose vivid, sensual and impressionistic writing on the exploding medium mirrored the exuberance and cadence of the music itself; in New York City. His prose made palpable the styles and physicality of performers like drummer "Big Sid" Catlett (whose "huge hands ... reduced the drumsticks to pencils") and trumpeter "Doc" Cheatham (whose solos were "a succession of lines, steps, curves, parabolas, angles and elevations"). Defining his role as appreciative witness as opposed to stern judge, he and writer Nat Hentoff in 1957 put together TV's The Sound...
...Forest” focused almost exclusively on Mailer’s decision to include a bibliography, it was a sign that something was wrong.As it turns out, there are many “somethings” wrong with the novel: a frequently dull plot supported by flaccid prose, an inability to fully comprehend or adequately portray its complex and weighty subject, an overriding sense of banality posing as profundity, and a philosophical heart that is as intellectually dissatisfying as it is morally troubling. Of course, it also contains intermittent hints of brilliance, but they come in all the wrong places...