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...play called “Peanut Butter and Juliet,” written by Michael Mitnick ’06, as one of his best experiences. But he doesn’t really have any single favorite production or memory from all the time he’s spent doing theater work. “When I sat down at the Louise Donovan awards I couldn’t pick a specific memory but all the memories from all the shows started coming back to me and I started to realize, sometimes as a technician you kind of forget...
...narrative and attempts to give her reader a satisfying ending that leaves no questions unanswered. But this ending tells us only what Ares did with the rest of his life, not how he experienced them. The rushed exposition of the ensuing two decades hardly completes a novel that has spent 200-odd pages depicting a few months of feelings for a confused 12-year-old boy. Still, what Silver does best is paint a picture of an isolated, lonely existence. All of the characters in the novel are in some way alone. Ares’ mother struggles to raise...
...school.” But the success of 826 Valencia had led the organization to plan a half-dozen new writing centers across the United States, and Feeney saw an opportunity to stay involved in the program by opening up a local chapter. After talking to Eggers, Feeney spent almost a year drafting the local chapter application. He received approval from 826 National, and 826 Boston was born. In spring of last year, 826 Boston began holding workshops at English High School, expanding to a new location in Egleston Square in the fall. Student interest in the program has been...
...grandfather avoids memories of Djata’s father by refusing to speak with his mother, while Djata’s mother doesn’t ask where Djata is going when he leaves the house with cardboard armor or his blowgun. Even Djata’s father spent his last minutes with his son talking about the sea as the police ushered him into the van to take him to a camp.This disconnect from their lived reality and the one the reader sees in the novel seems surreal. Dragomán is able to straddle the fine line between...
Right now, however, the heart of the taco truck preservation movement is Sonderleiter's living room in Highland Park, at two-man meetings fueled by burritos from Leo's taco truck, widely considered the Kobe Bryant of vendors. "We've probably spent enough money there to put two of Leo's kids through college," says Rutherford. "He recognizes us and knows what we like. You just don't get that at Jack...