Word: writes
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...tone of the report aside, one is left to ask, "Richard, if so many of us write so poorly, don't you deserve some blame?" His answer is that Expos does a fine job, churning out prize-winning essayists year after year. The trouble, it turns out, begins upon completion of Expos, after which inattention to writing becomes the norm...
...stake. As one of Edleman's students said, the offering of the money made the assignment both more challenging and more realistic; it helped them learn as much as it tantalized them with visions of wealth. Just like the elementary school assignment in which you have to write a business letter which will actually be mailed, Edelman was doing his best to make the classroom exercise jive with the real world. And in the corporate universe, takeovers and raids are not intellectual enterprises; they're business ventures which seek to turn a profit for the raider...
Which brings us to Eisenstadt herself, a Rockaway refugee who befriended Ellis while both were in writing workshops at Bennington. The pair have appeared on the Today show together, share a mentor (author Joe McGinnis) and both have set their novels in the imaginary campus of Camden (read: Bennington). But Eisenstadt resents the unavoidable comparisons between their work. "It's annoying because I don't think it's fair to either of the books, although I do like the guy a lot," she says of Ellis, while sitting and sipping water in her publisher's New York office, "We both...
Gore's strategy is a risky one. He may have to write off the Iowa caucuses. Not only was he late in entering, but he has done little catering to the liberal activists whose zeal dominates the delegate-selection process. He may fare better in New Hampshire, where the party is more diverse and the stalwarts tend to be more conservative than in Iowa. He counts on a big win March 8, Super Tuesday, when 20 states, mostly in the South, will hold primaries and caucuses to choose 35% of the delegates. In doing so, Gore is gambling that...
That includes a premium on visual effects and an emphasis on rudimentary characterization, both earmarks of immature writing and feature films, where the bulk of the audience is under 25. Only the future can tell which young writers will be ready to bleed for their art and which will continue to write with ice-cold Perrier in their veins. But current evidence indicates a considerable potential for a fiction of arrested development. Says Thomas Bender, head of the history department of New York University and author of the recent cultural history New York Intellect: "If the world is willing...