Word: editor
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...writer is the Assistant Dean for Financial Management at the Kennedy School of Government and a former Crimson editor...
Martin, who is also a Crimson editor, would have preferred to have ended his college career with a stronger performance...
...Seeing Mary Plain (Norton; 939 pages; $35), Frances Kiernan, a former fiction editor at the New Yorker, has written a portrait not only of McCarthy, the critic and novelist, but also of her literary generation. Kiernan's book teems with a splendid cast of characters--starting with McCarthy's Partisan Review crowd of the 1930s and '40s (Philip Rahv, William Phillips, Delmore Schwartz and Dwight Macdonald), then widening to include other figures in McCarthy's busy, contentious life, including Wilson, whom she called "the monster," her unexpected soul mate Hannah Arendt and dozens of gifted walk-ons, such as Robert...
Many of those peers had a high opinion of Mary. Janet Flanner ("Genet") called her "the most educated female mind of our time in both America and England." The New Yorker editor William Shawn went so far as to say, "There aren't many people you could mention in connection with Samuel Johnson. But you could mention Mary McCarthy." That's going too far. McCarthy left some good travel writing, interesting memoirs and some biting stories. Her best sustained work was her personality--forceful, witty, sometimes generous, often merciless...
ORDINARY.COM Why do some men shave while others grow a beard? Why the sudden hush in an elevator? A new online periodical called the Journal of Mundane Behavior mundanebehavior.org analyzes these and other quotidian activities. Why bother to log on? Because the ordinary reveals more about ourselves, says managing editor Scott Schaffer, a sociologist at California State University at Fullerton: "Most of us don't lead Jerry Springer lives." True, but his show should still get the ratings...