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...awkward, but it’s still a bit helpful, no? Any number of ungraceful metaphors like this one can be extended to try and describe the difficult process of learning to write, and a book like “Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writer??s Guide” is full of them. Purporting to teach aspiring writers useful things like “Finding, Researching, and Reporting Topics” and “Building a Career in Magazines and Books,” “Telling True Stories” is a collection...
...voluminous writer??known for 5,000-word days—kept a journal his sophomore year, which he summed up with five words: “Weather, Work, Smoking, Liquor and Love.” He joined fellow literary types as a member of the Signet Society, praising the Dunster Street club for serving “the best luncheon in Cambridge...
Every article that we publish, including submissions from non-Crimson editors, is fact-checked for quotations, names, dates, and other assertions of fact. Though the accuracy of a piece is its writer??s responsibility, an editor will re-fact check every point...
...autobiographical series. The first two memoirs, “Angela’s Ashes,” which won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and “‘Tis,” recount the writer??s upbringing in Limerick, Ireland. Audience member and former co-director of external relations at the GSE, Dottie V. Engler described McCourt as “the kind of guy you could only dream to [be] sitting next to at a bar.” The audience echoed...
...exist, only their descendents. This type of characterization and generalization, in addition to the hostile tone in which the article is written, is hurtful and ignorant. It renders the article ineffective at instigating any type of real debate or discussion about the issue, which is also exemplified in the writer??s lack of communication with the Native American community or Harvard’s athletic department regarding this story. What results is not a useful catalyst for discussion, but an inflammatory diatribe that seeks only to provoke and polarize...