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...perhaps time now to cease chastising Harvard's planners and administrators--what is done is done. One group which played an important, probably pivotal role in the decision to destroy the hall cannot yet be forgiven, however. That group is the Faculty of Humanities, the future occupants of the rabbit warren which is replacing the hall. I must admit that I initially was unable to believe what a number of Harvard professors and administrators have in the past suggested--that the Humanities Department refused to support the hall's preservation not because it was desperate for space or ignorant...
Phillips began writing the manuscript for White Rabbit less than two years after her 1988 graduation from Dartmouth College. She says she has always been interested in writing, but did not write fiction during her college years, with the exception of a few short stories that she self-deprecatingly describes as "crappy...
...fight and she could only be a spectator and an outsider. She says the experience made her eager to return to her own roots. After only a few more weeks in South East Asia, Phillips returned to her parent's home in Claremont, California and began working on White Rabbit...
Phillips sees White Rabbit as part of the tradition of Californian dystopian novels. When she began writing, her vision of California was relatively bleak. She wanted to emphasize the isolation and loneliness that often comes with living in a condominium community like Ruth's "Paradise Lagoon." She was also concerned with the rapid growth and development that was choking the state. Now, after a few Boston winters, Phillips says her vision of California is more positive...
...White Rabbit is a well-written and exciting book. The characters are lovingly sculpted and emerge from the book vividly and convincingly. In many ways, Ruth's life is remarkably ordinary, but Phillips tells her story so well, and with so much sincerity and fondness, that White Rabbit becomes an absorbing read...