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...crest on the building’s facade, the quaint white siding and green window frames belie the literary clout that lies within.Though the humble exterior may do well to conceal the presence of the country’s oldest continuously published college literary magazine, the interior tells a different story. The Advocate’s past literally envelops the space: the walls of the Sanctum are lined with rows of wooden plaques dating back to 1872. Names written in gold commemorate board members of each guard, the letters fading away with each older plate. To peruse these plaques along...

Author: By Liyun Jin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Advokats' In The Hous | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...workshops.“I like to think that it didn’t hurt my grades, because it fulfilled some spiritual or psychological need that helped me do better in classes,” says Mao, smiling. “At least that’s what I tell myself.”Fiction writers are especially affected by the pressure on Harvard students to use their degrees for a high-powered career. The publishing industry is infamously difficult to break into, and success is far from guaranteed. “A writer is a hard thing to become...

Author: By Maria Y. Xia, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Do the Write Thing | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

When I wake up I can tell that I’m on the third or fourth floor of a big house, not an entirely unfamiliar one, but one that I’ve been in two, maybe even three times before.I can tell that I’m the first, the only one, awake. It’s not so familiar that I don’t have to look for the bathroom, so I shuffle around in the thick shag carpeting until I find it, behind a crudely painted white door that hangs ajar amidst winter sunlight. It?...

Author: By David L Rice, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FICTION: Dawson's Creaak | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...tell her she is pretty...

Author: By Kathleen E. Hale, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FICTION: Finagled | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...your license out of your purse while you were peeing,” she says. “I’m ten years older than you. Can you tell...

Author: By Kathleen E. Hale, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FICTION: Finagled | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

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