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...didn’t write a thesis,” he says. “Because I knew I was going to get calls saying, ‘Can you go to New York, can you go to Florida...
There is such a thing as grade inflation. When a graduate leaves a college with a 3.5 GPA, and you interview that student, and you soon determine that the kid can’t read, write, articulate or think very well, then I’d argue that that school has grade inflation. It is not grade inflation if objective standards for earning an A exist, and the students are achieving or exceeding those standards regardless of the percentage of students who do so. You should not socialize this thing to the point that student accomplishment is short-changed...
Back Room, by Dan Milstein, directed by Kristin Baker, depicts the situation of three writers known only as A (Greg Luzitano), B (Ron Rittinger) and C (Lara Krepps). Their boss (Kevin LaVelle) instructs them through an intercom, and they write him speeches for all occassions—flirtation, commisseration, and an inexplicable situation in which he stands on an ornate chair to address some sort of audience. The scenario’s setup is delightfully bizzaire and enigmatic, but the implementation—a bunch of people stand around trying to think of things to write, occasionally interrupted...
Everything--and nothing. "I always thought one day I would write a story," says Jones, a shy, round-shouldered man with a sly, infectious smile. "The first line is, 'You never get over having been a child.'" He laughs, but there's still hurt there. Jones had a tough childhood: his father wasn't around, and his mother washed dishes and scrubbed floors to support him and his sister and brother, who is disabled. His mother never learned to read, and they moved 18 times in 18 years. Once a landlord took the windows out of their frames when...
...thinking it through as I was living my life," he remembers. "I'm on the bus, I'm walking up and down the aisles of Safeway, you know? I'm sitting watching TV, and a thought will come to me." By Christmas 2001 he was finally ready to write. He sat down at his computer--a loaner from his office--and poured out the entire book in seven months flat...