Word: yorker
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...gets filed under country because her songs tell little stories (the title track is about a family reunion that ends with a trip to a grave), but she's really a hybrid of folk and adult pop: equal parts Patty Griffin and Norah Jones. For lyrics, this native New Yorker leans on just a few evocative nouns, and her melodies grow in the wide open spaces between delicately played guitar chords. Her singing on the standouts You Just Forgot and Please Stay is cool and restrained--not from an absence of feeling but from an excess...
...Chast has a husband, two children--one of whom is picking a banjo upstairs--and two very vocal parrots that say things like "Waffles!" and "Look, damn it!" and, for some reason, "What a big toast!" For 28 years, she has sent half a dozen ideas to the New Yorker every Tuesday and then waited to see which would be accepted. True to her characters, she gets very anxious about it. "It does not get any easier. At all. It's horrible...
...surprised at all,” Kincaid said of her mentee’s book deal. “She was one of my best students.” That’s profound praise considering that Kincaid, a former staff writer for the New Yorker who now teaches English as well as African and American Studies at Harvard, is herself an award-winning author...
...surprised at all,” Kincaid said of her mentee’s book deal. “She was one of my best students.” That’s profound praise considering that Kincaid, a former staff writer for the New Yorker who now teaches English as well as African and American Studies at Harvard, is herself an award-winning author...
...Beyond the Gates,” a day-long symposium, celebrated History and Literature’s 100th anniversary. The event featured talks and panel discussions with graduates of the program, including New York Times columnist Frank Rich ’71, New Yorker staff writer Nicholas B. Lemann ’76, and former Clinton administration speechwriter Edward Widmer...