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...conducting a student ensemble. But Harbison continues to compose—at the moment he is focused on a piece for the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra based on the works of short story writer Alice Munro. As part of his research, Harbison says he has read most of her fiction...

Author: By Bora Fezga, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: John H. Harbison | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...Fiction sales have plummeted. Poetry has become a fetish. Parents are terrified their children will become playwrights; it means they will never move out. The exodus of undergraduates from the humanities to occupational majors—coupled with the devaluation of literature and art in our society—has driven certain humanist disciplines to the brink of extinction. From the early 1970s to the mid 1980s, the number of English majors in the United States dwindled from 64,000 to 34,000. Despite the fact that more students across the country are attending college than ever before, less than...

Author: By Matthews B. Kaiser | Title: Reading Like Your Life Depends On It | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

Hale credits her “Harriet the Spy” antics for the skills that ultimately helped her win the 2009 Louis Begley Prize for Fiction, awarded by the Harvard Advocate, for her short story about a young child who, because of her mother’s cancer diagnosis, develops an obsession with terrifying animals...

Author: By Tyler G. Hale, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Student Writers Reflect | 5/10/2010 | See Source »

...been an influential contemporary writer. He points to Proulx’s short stories, including “The Half-Skinned Steer” and “The Bunchgrass Edge of the World,” as works that showed him the importance of location in fiction...

Author: By Tyler G. Hale, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Student Writers Reflect | 5/10/2010 | See Source »

...Last Samurai” and “Peaceful Warrior”—two of the films that have influenced Carter’s writing—have strong spiritual overtones that play a role in her fiction, she adds...

Author: By Tyler G. Hale, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Student Writers Reflect | 5/10/2010 | See Source »

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