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All four of Bendorf’s years at Harvard have been centered on honing her craft. “Freshman fall I discovered that I didn’t want to be a math major,” says Bendorf, who proceeded to create a special concentration: Dramatic Literature...
About halfway through, as the plot of the novel gets rolling, a young man, Webster Carlton Westward III, enters Kenton’s life with seemingly suspect intentions. Just as happens often today, Westward positions himself for the opportunistic memoir, the “tell-all” of the...
Where this book succeeds most is on the level of satire. Unlike in his previous books, Palahniuk does not show his readers a secret or paranormal world, but instead takes one especially familiar to most modern audiences and exaggerates its flaws to significant comic effect. For example in one scene...
The fact that there are traces of the frenzy around Angelina Jolie or the death of Michael Jackson in this novel certainly make it stronger, but Palahniuk needs to take his satire farther if he is going to be successful with it. He absolutely has the ability to make something...
This inclusive view of dance characterizes Quinn’s attitude about the art to which he devotes much of his time as a choreographer and performer. Unlike most dancers, Quinn did not practice the form until he arrived at Harvard. An actor during high school, he went to the...