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What may strike us as most remarkable about contemporary authors Banana Yoshimoto and Haruki Murakami is the relative familiarity of the world they write about - the fact that they don't seem tortured by the question of Japan's position relative to the rest of the world. When the heroine of Yoshimoto's Kitchen mixes Japanese and French dishes in her menus, she's not making a point about cultural miscegenation. The deadpan Yoshimoto seems to be merely reporting how people eat in Tokyo...
...Mansfield doesn't write much on the Germans, but he's really more of an expert than most people who do," Liebert says...
Originally, before my death—and the subsequent deaths of my valiant teammates in Sunday’s final shootout—I had intended to write a column singing the praises of Assassin, that much-ridiculed and frequently-banned adornment of Harvard’s house life. I planned to point out how the game encouraged house spirit, how it expanded one’s circle of friends and acquaintances and how it encouraged a spirit of martial solidarity rivalled only, I imagine, in the fraternal order of final clubs and the rabble-rousing ranks of the Progressive...
Kocher sent an e-mail over the Adams House "schmooze" list urging students to write letters complaining about the noise level or any other problems they have had with the Lampoon...
Years before a hero appears on the big screen at a star-infested movie premiere, a writer sat down alone and started to write. This writer labored for months or years, creating the characters, tweaking the dialogue, researching the setting, lining up an agent—all in anticipation of the moment when the screenplay is sold and the writer is left behind, usually without any creative say over how the movie is changed and the script is rewritten. By the time the film premieres, the writer is usually forgotten—the anonymity of writers at the Academy Awards...