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...business. To make ends meet, Suzzy buys food at Accra's central market and then resells it around her neighborhood. The family is perpetually behind on its $16-a-month rent, and when I visited last August, the power in the house had been switched off after a meter reader said the meter had been installed illegally. The couple, who now have four children, including Wisdom, 2--Suzzy calls him "our surprise"--often wonder how they will...
...feature, though both of them are years behind Amazon.com, which has allowed peeks into the titles on its site since 2003. But Random House and HarperCollins have loftier goals than Amazon: they want to bring literature to the Facebook generation. Both publishing houses are introducing tools that will allow readers to export text from their books to other forums. Readers can use Insight to post content on personal Web sites, while HarperCollins’ widget can place content on social networking sites like MySpace.com. Has the publishing industry really sunk to level of MySpace? Will chunks of Ulysses soon...
...highest-grossing show on campus. This is a pretty safe assumption, seeing as everyone I’ve spoken to who has seen previous Pudding shows has agreed with me that 159 is perhaps the best Pudding show in recent history. The review indicated to me as a reader that the Pudding show was being viewed out of context...
...offer their best or most concise advice to audiences of aspiring journalists. A full 91 of these presentations are collected in “Telling True Stories.” Contradicting and disagreeing with one another, the 51 contributors to the volume usually describe their own methods, always cautioning readers that the key to literary journalism is finding your own voice, your own way of doing things. Take the four opinions about whether or not a writer of creative nonfiction should use a tape recorder. Adam Hochschild ’63 writes, “I’m deeply...
...other in circumstances and personality, they all share the common thread of facing some sort of personal distress. Eisenberg tells each story from multiple perspectives to capture this distress, switching seamlessly from third person narrative to interior monologue. These transitions are initially confusing, but as the story continues, the reader learns to recognize each character’s voice and perspective and becomes absorbed in his or her world. The title of the collection comes from the first short story, which centers on Lucien, a widowed New Yorker, and Nathaniel, the nephew of his late wife, Charlie. Though...