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...writer and thus helps them to learn elements of fictional technique.”The Extension School also features a course titled “Writing the Novel,” which is taught by William J. Holinger, a former Expository Writing preceptor and current director of the Harvard Summer School Secondary School Program. Holinger has been teaching this course for over a decade, although this year he revamped it to present the material in a different way—emphasizing point of view, voice, and narration, as well as narrative structure and plot. Holinger says that he devotes...
...listlessly offering to help clean up. Then we’ll have to start negotiating the gridlock of cars in the driveway; people will exchange phone numbers, the right ones or made-up ones; the snow will start to thaw and spring will start to come, and then this summer and then next year. And Ellen will have to look at her sullen, Ivy-bound son, and pick up his sister and little brother from wherever they are, and the four of them will have to look into the fridge and wonder what to have for dinner, as I drive...
...Let’s go down to the lake and I’ll help you get some.”“OK.”The lake was a shimmering blue as we approached. The lake was where us children came on those beautiful summer days to go swimming. Those were good memories.About ten yards from the waterline, Katie spotted some good rocks. She collected a couple and I put them one by one into my backpack. We then walked along the lake and she picked up a few more rocks. All the while, I couldn?...
...writing instructor at the College since 1997, Jehn has served as interim director of the program—which oversees the Expository Writing program, the only required course at Harvard—since former Director Nancy Sommers stepped down in the summer...
...minutes per 24 hours. Budding musicians and aspiring journalists will set up camp in Williamsburg or at NYU housing, hoping to work up enough hipster cred to create a cleverly named tumblr that people might actually read. Finally, there is the PBHA wunderkind-turned-activist. These heroes of the summer score public-service fellowships that allow them to live in the city for three months and devote time and energy to the type of things that make the world a better place...