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...deep well of creativity in Maugham. Hastings makes the unimpeachable case that posterity will remember Maugham, first and foremost, for these undeluded, worldly-wise, sometimes shocking tales of white colonist-planters exiled in the steamy jungle. In later years, when he visited Mexico and Central America, he was to write that these countries did not give him a fraction of the inspiration that he got from Asia. There is a just measure of reward in the fact that if anyone reads Maugham now, they are more likely to be in that continent than in the West, which seems to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Drama Queen: William Somerset Maugham | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

...Write a New York Times bestseller: 0.5 percent

Author: By Michelle L. Quach | Title: And You Thought Getting Into Harvard was Hard... | 11/14/2009 | See Source »

...Creative writers] drink a lot before they write. Visual arts people smoke more. People here are really too serious, though, at least about their academic ventures,” she adds...

Author: By Noël D. Barlow and Eunice Y. Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: High Art | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

...people are going to think that sounds crazy,’” Wymer says. “But when I say that someone talks to me in cinnamon when I’m not as inhibited as much with alcohol, I’m not afraid to write...

Author: By Noël D. Barlow and Eunice Y. Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: High Art | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

This insistence on artistic integrity and quality typically necessitates an inclusion of a sober perspective even when the artwork was produced under the influence. “Even for me, whenever I occasionally write while I drink, it still takes me being sober to go through and edit and do revisions,” Wymer says. “It’s not that every time I drink and write it’s going to be fantastic...

Author: By Noël D. Barlow and Eunice Y. Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: High Art | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

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