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...know exactly where your story will take you?JK: I sit down at my desk and I know it will be difficult in this way and difficult in that way. Every book has a different process. You think this person is going to get up and cross the room. That’s what I intend but sometimes, the room might be as long as the Sahara desert. 2. FM: As the Creative Writing thesis deadline approaches, what do you look for in a budding novelist?JK: I’m not really looking for anything. The ones who have...
...cleared the hurdle of staying awake past pre-festivities, I wake up the next morning to realize that I’ve done something horrific during the actual festivities. Last May, I threw a drink at the president-elect of a large campus organization, then announced to the room that he regularly wears women’s jeans. This Halloween, I spent two successfully inebriated hours trying to take a friend’s shirt off—not because I wanted to seduce him, but because I just really disliked the way it fit. Perhaps most disastrously, I once...
...explain it: I had worked it at all of the study breaks, and was staying in Annenberg late into every night. I was getting nowhere with the girls of the class of 2009 and wasn’t doing much better with Domna. It turned out that Room 13 wasn’t a brothel after all, and the girls coming out of the Wellesley shuttle were never as reckless as I had hoped they’d be. I decided to put all my eggs in one basket: the Dewey Decimal System basket. I figured the kind of girl...
...Professors stood three-deep at the doors on both sides of the room and some sat on the floor at a meeting held just one day after the Faculty’s top deans sent a letter to department chairs freezing the salaries of all FAS professors and announcing a hold on the majority of the searches for new Faculty...
...alabaster prayer room of the Zoroastrian temple in the center of Yazd, a handful of adherents sway to the cadence of ancient Persian prayers recited as a priest feeds sticks of sandalwood and sprinkles of frankincense into a blazing urn. Zoroastrians wear hand-woven wool cords as external symbols of their faith, and almost always pray in front of a fire, which represents purity and sustainability. In Yazd, the holy flame has burned for 1,500 years without ever being extinguished. While Zoroastrianism was once the dominant religion in a swathe of territory spanning from Rome and Greece to India...