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...It’s changed over the years. I wrote my first two collections of stories between the hours of midnight and 4 a.m. and then I had to change and actually learn to work in the daytime, and then I tried working first thing in the morning before I did anything. And now I have no process at all. It’s up for grabs...
...workshop at Columbia taught by Gordon Lisch, and we had one assignment which was to write your worst secret, the thing you would never live down, or as he put it: “the thing that dismantles the sense of your self.” And so, I was in my late 20s, almost 30 at the time, and I knew the worst secret was I felt I had failed my best friend when she was dying. So that’s why I wrote that story. It wasn’t something I wanted to think about...
...most fascinating thing about Harvard is the people—so the cliché goes. But for sophomore Nigel Munoz, a rower on men’s heavyweight crew, this adage could not be more true, thanks to his spirit of adventure and his drive to test the limits of his athleticism...
...search is a contact sport no matter what industry you’re looking at,” Carroll said. “And the thing with industries like publishing is that they don’t want a passive way of looking for talent. They want someone who’s really passionate about the job. They want you to find them.” Carroll cited the case of Conde Nast, which actively hid links to their internship application to eliminate the less dedicated...
It’s an uncomfortable truth: in any one game, the worst player can beat the best player in the world. “That’s certainly one thing that makes poker sexy to the average guy,” says Matt Hawrilenko, a 27-year-old professional poker player who graduated from Princeton in 2004, where he worked in the dining halls for financial aid. “In any given day, you can beat the best. Or, certainly, in any given day, you can compete with the best. The average guy is never going...