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...sister. I didn't have time for writer's block. I wrote every few minutes that the kids were napping or at nursery school or watching Barney on television. Because of that, I learned how to really sit down quickly and focus when I needed to. I've always sort of believed that writer's block is a luxury for people who have time on their hands...
...have to do is bump into this kid the wrong way and he could wind up with a break. And what if I'm the one who causes his next fracture? And of course this is something these parents feel every minute of their lives. It was a really sort of jarring moment for me. (See the top 10 non-fiction books...
...have Wonder bread, or Chips Ahoy cookies,” she said. Cardullo-Tavilla added that Cardullo’s commitment to quality earned her the respect of not only Harvard Square and the Cambridge community, but also the entire food industry. “My father was some sort of food god,” she said. Cardullo’s colleagues said they would remember her generosity. “Whenever she was asked to help the association, you always knew that she would say yes,” said John P. DiGiovanni, president of the Harvard Square...
...this collection, the poet’s gaze spans New York and the greater Boston area as he observes his characters with attentive and probing eyes. Holder recounts absurd moments in the miserably ordinary lives that constellate his world. He uses these stories as a sort of social critique of today’s humdrum realities, engaging a universal longing for something beyond the banal.But Holder’s material doesn’t spark much more interest than that. Title characters like “The Woman Who Sat on the Toilet for Two Years” fail...
...models might be a more effective way of inciting constructive conversation. “It’s a particular, commodified image of gayness,” she says. “There is something about drag queens in the popular imagination that runs the risk of becoming a sort of comedic thing to parody femininity and it’s not really about serious difference.” Timothy McCarthy ’93, a lecturer in the History and Literature department, echoes this sentiment and warns that organizers will have to handle the issue of sexuality...