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...Stanford Graduate School of Business announced earlier this week that it would take the incident into account in its admissions decisions, but it did not say whether it had accepted any of the individuals involved. Stanford asked the 41 affected applicants to write a letter explaining their actions...
Pertile attributed the Italian literati’s apolitical stance to a desire to produce a more lasting “high art,” finding writers “too occupied with the human condition....They weren’t interested in writing about fascism; they wanted to write for eternity, not the here...
Last fall, I wasn’t thinking much about the Holocaust. I was thinking about how to get through the semester. I had been accepted into a creative writing class, and was both ecstatic and terrified. I had no idea what I was going to write about...
...first two weeks, we were required to write every day for half an hour. About anything. My entries usually began with how stupid free-writing was, or how my contact lenses felt funny, or that it looked cold outside. But on day five, an almost complete story came out. It was about a female college student in New York—huge leap, I know. The Holocaust didn’t play center stage, but the girl was named after her grandmother, who was killed in a concentration camp. The Holocaust had become part of her identity...
...grandparents’ stories. But here I was, not only amassing information, but also forming something new. I was excited to have finally found a topic I could treat in a new and meaningful way. Here was something I knew, something I could explore, and something I could write about from my own experience...