Word: winthrops
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Writer Nicholas F. DelBanco '63 told a Winthrop House audience last night of the danger of trivializing life in fiction...
...part of the Winthrop House Literary Series, DelBanco read his soon-to-be-published short story "The Writer's Trade," about Mark Fusco, a young author riding on a train that runs over a woman's body. The event leads to the protagonist's realization that his ambition to write great fiction can trivialize the very situations he depicts in his work...
...literary series, in its first year, brings writers of different disciplines to the house library to discuss their profession, said writer and Winthrop House librarian Maureen Foley...
...odds seemed about the same. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie was after one of five tickets scattered around the entire world. In the housing lottery, we had number 426 and we wanted Winthrop...
...spent days guessing and second-guessing and weighing our priorities. Would Winthrop make it to the end of the first round? Would people be scared to put down Leverett because it seemed so popular? Would athletes really be discouraged from putting down Kirkland? Or would people be fooled into believing that this would actually make it easier...