Word: writers
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...Staff writer Jake I. Fisher can be reached at jifisher@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Rebecca J. Levitan can be reached at rlevitan@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Matthew H. Coogan can be reached at mcoogan@fas.harvard.edu...
Walking through Harvard Yard after an English section last fall, another student and I began speculating as to whether any writer had convincingly portrayed the experience of falling in love. Tolstoy developed it too suddenly and Austen privileged convention over emotion. And for Nabokov, love was a clinical affair; a warm body lain on ice. Entomologist, chess-player, master of three languages, and arguably the greatest prose stylist of the 20th century, the ever-meticulous Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov could reach sublime artistic heights, my interlocutor admitted—but who would want to inhabit such chilly...
...Staff writer Jessica A. Sequeira can be reached at jsequeir@fas.harvard.edu...