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...McCallum muses, “all this bullshit about blue screen and green screen, all you’re trying to do is get to a place where a writer can sit down in a room and write down virtually anything he or she wants to do and then we have the means to achieve it.”Those may not sound like the words of Yoda, but there’s more than a little wisdom in them, nonetheless.—Staff writer Abe J. Riesman can be reached at riesman@fas.harvard.edu...
...juxtaposes detective novel slang and modern art, literary references and questions inspired by computer science. Robinson, also a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, is now working towards her Ph.D. in American studies at Boston University. But many of the poems in her book were written in the Harvard creative writing classes Robinson took as a graduate and undergraduate. Boylston Professor of Oratory and Rhetoric Jorie Graham was one of Robinson’s teachers, and Graham, who won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize in poetry, helped Robinson begin to organize her poetry into book form.“I don?...
...first thing he said was to write a paper about art,” Fingleton recalls. “Two weeks I had been at Harvard, and he came into the class with all these papers, and he said, ‘You think you’re all so great,’ and then he started throwing papers at people.” Fingleton laughs, then mimics the professor, bellowing, “‘This is the worst paper I’ve ever read, Smith!’” Finally, it was Fingleton?...
...Institute alumni that includes 1986 Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, the first African to be honored in literature, and current Thomas Professor of African and African American Studies Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. Phyllis S. Taoua, a scholar of Francophone literature at the University of Arizona who said she plans to write her second book while a Du Bois fellow, said she found the Institute appealing because of its multifaceted approach to African studies. “The reason I applied to the Du Bois Institute was its emphasis on interdisciplinary study,” she said. “I think that...
...persistent. Even the mounted black and white portraits of him are in rectangular frames. “That’s from a friend who knew that I was just vain enough to hang up pictures of myself,” he chuckles. “You can write that down.” Matsui replaced the drab dorm lamps with the mod light of a movie projector. The compact machine rests on her desk, poised to illuminate the opposite wall, blank except for a clothesline of scattered photographs. Matsui also mounted two gilded wood carvings, trinkets from the pair?...