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...WILL POWER. Most of Esquith's 29 pupils are classified as gifted or high achievers, but that hardly guarantees success in an environment where poverty and gangsterism are endemic. Some of his incoming students this year "didn't know two times three," he says. "Four of them couldn't write a sentence in any language...
...when the subject of Bloom and AIDS is raised, Bellow responds, "I'm sorry to see you getting me on this particular track because I don't want to be on it." All that he will say, without mentioning Bloom by name, is, "He said, 'I trust you to write this. I know it's going to be fiction.' He said, 'I'd like you to do this...
Many an aspiring writer has heard the sage advice to "write what you know." It is evident that Cambridge native Mameve Medwed is doing just that in her latest novel, Host Family. She knows Cambridge well. Very well. So well, in fact, that she has laid out every detail of it for the reader. From the Loeb to Mr. Bartley's to Pennypacker to Brattle Street, nothing is left to the imagination. If you're looking for subtlety, Host Family is not the book...
...Mars?", "Human Cloning: The Future is Now," "Was Jesus Black?," etc... Every time Anna Kournikova wins a tennis match, her mother and coach make a beeline for the nearest liquor stand to take shots... Resorting to legal force, Oprah managed to prevent one of her ex-employees from writing an expose of what really happens behind the scenes at the Oprah Winfrey show. Ironic, of course, since Oprah championed free speech when she was sued by those Texas cattle ranchers a couple of years back... Everyone's buzzing about this Saturday's SNL that'll spoof Ricky Martin, Jennifer Lopez...
...Elkies is not the buffest guy in Cambridge. Perhaps not even in Lowell House. But is he the buffest Harvard professor ever to be published in the American Chess Journal, win the Math Olympiad and write an opera? We'll leave that as an exercise to the reader...