Word: suburbanity
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...frowned on dating whites. Asian-white couples have it relatively easy, observes L.E. Hartmann-Ting, 32, a white grad student who lives in Medford, Mass., with her husband Dr. Leon Ting, 30, a fellow in pulmonary medicine at Harvard. She feels curiosity rather than hostility from neighbors in her suburban apartment building about her Chinese-American husband...
Both Angela M. Hur ’02 and Elizabeth A. Phang ’02 are writing theses which are ostensibly more personal than those of the authors interviewed last week. The stories are set in a suburban town; the novel’s characters are like the author or people she knows. Do these similarities represent shameless and tiresome exploitations of the author’s experience, or are they simply a means to help the author create a new world that has never been seen before...
...some John Updike stories. One in particular inspired me to write about older people, “Playing with Dynamite.” For the most part before that I had written about younger people. I like George Saunders a lot—how he addresses the absurdity of suburban living—but I don’t think I write like him. I’ve also been inspired by Barry Hannah, Flannery O’Connor, Bobbie Ann Mason and many others. Basically everything I read influences the way I think about writing to some extent...
...writing a series of about eight short stories. They all take place in the same relatively small suburban town, each at a different period in time within about a 50-year range. Some of the characters appear in multiple stories at different ages and life stages. The protagonist or narrator of one story sometimes appears in another story as a minor character, or as a character important to the plot but not as the central figure. There will be a story about a ghost. I wouldn’t say that the work has a theme, they are just stories...
...Khan, 28, insisted her son had gone to Pakistan for humanitarian work. In Luton, 34 miles north of London, the parents of computer-engineering student Afzal Munir and taxi driver Aftab Manzoor, both 25, weren't aware the two had joined up. Both lived with their parents in modest suburban houses in this quiet town that is home to 22,000 Muslims...