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Everyone and their Hist and Lit tutor has a theory of when childhood ends—or really, when theirs ended. Puberty? Columbine? 9/11? But whatever the endpoint, hardly anyone disputes the premise: There is childhood, and then it’s over. The ending is generally seen as a premature and inauspicious development.The tragedy of childhood’s end is at the crux of “Ant Farm: And Other Desperate Situations,” the debut collection of comedic shorts by Simon Rich ’06–’07. From the second...
...parents, boarded the shuttle ready to rage. Unfortunately for them, their foul mouths were overheard by one student’s mom and her bevy of parent friends. Nothing says educated like the phrase “let’s get fuck-tarded”...A Hist & Lit senior scheduled a Signet date with her mother, in town visiting. Unfortunately, post-thesis revelry left doting daughter hard-up with a hangover, and bemused mom got stood up at lunch...Moving outside the realm of parent mishaps, anal Spee members had an internal e-mail thread that worried about...
...adorn that Harvard diploma of his, $9.99. 8) For the fashionista: a $15 gift certificate to Mint Julep, which will buy her...nothing. 9) For the wannabe musician: an hour lesson with the man who plays the erhu in the Square, $13.75. 10) For the image-conscious Hist and Lit concentrator: a Starbucks paper cup to compliment her Uggs and Burberry scarf, $0.20. 11) For your vegan blockmate: 11 Optimum Energy Blueberry Flax Soy meal replacement bars from the Vitamin Shoppe, $14.66. 12) For your boyfriend: a pair of earrings from Zinnia (for when he forgets...
Peter Blake: I went to law school, which just seemed like the typical refuge for a Hist. and Lit. major who didn’t want to go work for Goldman Sachs. Then I got to law school and I realized, “Oh my God, what am I doing?”...I took a couple of undergraduate creative writing classes and I persuaded this professor named James Vorenberg [’48]...to let me write my third-year paper...as a creative third-year paper. I sort of wrote a spec script...
...were a Hist. and Lit. concentrator at Harvard, which means you must have read many Western classics. Did anyone in particular inspire you to write crime or medical drama...