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SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL How does an author learn to write convincing sex scenes? If she's a romance writer, she can attend a sex-writing class at the Romance Writers of America's annual convention. But what can an aspiring Philip Roth do? Ben Schrank, the author of "Consent" (Random House: March) says that the key to writing persuasive sex scenes is "learning what innuendo means, and knowing what to cut out. Readers will fill in the more provocative details." Schrank, 32, should know...
...GIRL WITH A PEARL NECKLACE PW adores "The Strand of a Thousand Pearls" by Dorit Raninyan, translated from the Hebrew by Yael Lotan (Random House: June 25), giving it a starred review. "Rabinyan's second novel (after the international bestseller 'Persian Brides') maintains an expert balance between lyricism and tough-mindedness. Like Isaac Babel in his Odessa short stories, (Rabinyan) knows that a metaphor is not an ornament, but rather a probe (or even a bullet) into the heart... FORECAST: Reviewers eager to pigeonhole Rabinyan's work will compare it to 'Like Water for Chocolate, but her fierce storytelling...
They said they do not believe that the housing process is truly random...
Most first-years said they merely hoped not to get “quadded,” but many went to great lengths to secure the housing assignments of their choice—although they knew the assignments were random...
...were random, why would they ask you your concentration?” Stewart said...