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...were his men. He cared for them. He knew their names and asked about their projects. At one garrison it was alternative medicine, growing plants and making extracts. At another it was special-operations training. He ate with the men and joked with them. He is a fine yarn teller, never too self-conscious to act a story out. He turns his head sideways when he listens to you and looks at you, not intensively like Fidel but more quizzically. Unlike Fidel, who takes no breaks from work for simple pleasures, Raúl likes a good time, enjoying cockfights and horses...
...iconic books of those previous eras: Jake Barnes, Holden Caulfield, Dean Moriarty--bad seeds and square pegs, all of them. The paradox of every Voice novel is that it brings a generation of readers together around the idea that they alone are the single badass misfit truth teller in a world full of phonies...
...e-mail.McClintick says he did not expect the intense reaction his story drew on campus.“For me, the work is its own reward. The reaction is something separate,” he says. “I’m basically a reporter, a story teller. I’m not an advocate.”—Staff writer Nicholas M. Ciarelli can be reached at ciarelli@fas,harvard.edu...
...grade-school research paper on the Underground Railroad, her “first voyage of discovery in terms of reading and researching.” By middle school, Elkins was writing regularly.“History is in many ways about good storytelling,” the acclaimed history-teller says. “Analysis is a combination between good storytelling and analyzing the past....The combination of the two is really what keeps me going.”Elkins’ intellectual passions come across in her teaching.“She just has boundless energy...
...Staff writer Sam Teller can be reached at steller@fas.harvard.edu...