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Sunday 8:30 p.m.—Hana R. Alberts '06 helps layout stories on the front page and write headlines for them as one of the assistant night editors...
...King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech, those in attendance were invited to write their own dreams on a card inserted into each program, which were read during the service...
...Wang Shuo, who has to his credit several screenplays and numerous novels (including Playing for Thrills and Please Don't Call Me Human), is one of the rare Chinese authors who has made his fortune by writing for the domestic Chinese market. "I've always written for money until this novel that I'm working on now," he says. "I finally don't have to write for the market...
...Wang claims to be the freest-minded author in China but admits that there are many restrictions on what Chinese authors can write about. "I can't mention Mao, the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) or Muslims." He shakes his head when asked whether Mo Yan and Li Rui, two mainland authors favored by American and Swedish sinologists, are as free as he is. "No," he says. "They both love the peasants so much that they start to beautify them. Are Chinese peasants really that nice? Mo Yan and Li Rui are both nostalgic about the poor days of China...
...Vestiges of censorship in China and the blockbuster-driven nature of the publishing business encourage many Chinese authors to write knockoffs of foreign best-sellers. The copycat phenomenon is called dache (free ride) in publishing circles. Once Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient became a best-seller, writers quickly composed books with similar themes, calling them The Beijing Patient or The Chinese Patient. After Marguerite Duras' The Lover turned into a hot book, Beijing Lover, Singaporean Lover, Hong Kong Lover and English Lover-all written by women-soon saturated the market...