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...level of discourse, not in an academic way but in a democratic way,” Waters says. “I hope [the book] doesn’t seem exclusive or elitist because I don’t think it is. But the fact that people can write??if that’s the sin, we’re willing to be condemned...
This is exactly the kind of skill we at FlyBy love to see in our leaders: the ability to write?? meticulously researched exposes on fascinating historical events from previously untouched angles. While we love giving you props for your fantastic scholarly work in assessing the cultural impact of the 600,000 casualties of the Civil War or whatever...how about that endowment, Drew...
Jamaica Kincaid, world-renowned author of short stories, novels and essays, has finally returned to Harvard after a recent sabbatical. Back as a visiting lecturer, Kincaid dishes on plant collecting, the future of British journalists, and how to write??and live—well.1. FM: What’s your writing process? Do you sit down at your desk, and know exactly where your story will take you?JK: I sit down at my desk and I know it will be difficult in this way and difficult in that way. Every book has a different process. You think...
...After immersing themselves in research and academia, writers often assume that readers understand the jargon and conventions of specialists, Pinker said. “With apologies to Yeats, I’d argue that we aren’t trying to create monuments to our own magnificence when we write??we’re trying to teach our readers to understand our ideas,” said Marlon D. Kuzmick, the editor of this year’s “Exposé.” In order to make writing more accessible, Pinker suggested using concrete, plodding...
...what they mean,” she says. “It is shocking to me that it is controversial. My intention was to write about my own experience, that being both comical and sad.” Particularly sad—and particularly difficult for Pollitt to write??was an essay on her mother and her father. For Pollitt, forcing people to realize that she has a sometimes-difficult inner life has proved to be the most interesting aspect of this book’s publication. Despite her status as a well-known feminist, Pollitt refrained from...