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...reduces the department’s many tracks to two—a language-intensive track and a civilizations track. It also does away with the long-standing tradition of general exams for seniors based on a required reading list, while adding a junior tutorial to prepare students to write theses in subjects that may venture beyond literature...

Author: By Alex M. Mcleese, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Classics Dept. Changes Approved | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

...February, attacked the perceived snobbery of Wood’s approach to literature, the arrogance of Wood’s crypto-normative approach. Whitehead assumed the voice of a pompous literary quack to make his point, “I have essayed to instruct your writers in how to write correctly. Now I will teach you to read correctly.” He himself has not been immune to criticism, however. His novels have been faulted for their refusal to directly confront issues of race head-on and the page-turning power of his plots have been called into question...

Author: By Sanders I. Bernstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Colson Whitehead ’91 | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

...learned to drop right into the mental space,” he says. “When I had two free minutes, I would write. When I’m doing dishes, I would think about what to write...

Author: By Maria Y. Xia, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Do the Write Thing | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

...Writing takes a lot of mental energy,” says Shoshanna L. Fine ’10, one of few students accepted to write a creative thesis. “I’m fortunate that there is a creative track in the English department that allows me to prioritize writing...

Author: By Maria Y. Xia, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Do the Write Thing | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

...powered career. The publishing industry is infamously difficult to break into, and success is far from guaranteed. “A writer is a hard thing to become,” Fine says. “I’m not sure—maybe [I’ll write] at some point, but not immediately after college. Maybe...

Author: By Maria Y. Xia, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Do the Write Thing | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

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