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...schools without having to visit campuses, but the book is not entirely deplorable. Zawel, if nothing else, has given us another reason for self-congratulation: there are always jobs available for Ivy Leaguers post-graduation. Next year’s guides are waiting for their “student writers?? or “alumni voices...
...heading for the cornfields when she moves there this coming January. Rather, Chang—who will read from her first novel, “Inheritance,” at the Harvard Book Store this Tuesday—will assume the coveted position of director of the prestigious Iowa Writers?? Workshop, taking the place of recently deceased former director Frank Conroy. Chang, also a graduate of the rigorous two-year program, has spent two years teaching creative writing in Harvard’s English department. But the road to writing—as well as to Iowa?...
...Ultimately, Kumin says, “I forgave him, but by then he had died.” During Stegner’s life, Kumin says, “our paths never crossed.” At one point, the two writers?? career trajectories did come quite close to intersecting. Stegner won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1972; Kumin won the Pulitzer for poetry the following year...
...living his life for him for a week. Predictably, hilarity ensues. Although it may deliver the expected characters and even sometimes predictable punch-lines, “Mr. Plumb” is refreshingly and unexpectedly irreverent and compassionate in its treatment of the plot, a tribute to the writers?? and actors skill. Perhaps the script’s sensitive zaniness is best exemplified with Maggie’s follow-up to one touching line about her relationship with her late husband (“With his arms around me, I would not get cold. And with his arms...
Distelberg’s collection was inspired by a paper he wrote in his junior year that led to an interest in Patrick Dennis (a pseudonym for Edward Everett Tanner III). His collection, titled “‘An Interesting Trio of Writers??: Books By and About Edward Everett Tanner III”, contains about 30 books...