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...year-old daughter lives to write. What advice do you have for aspiring writers? -Darren Wethers, St. Louis, Mo.The work is in the work itself. If she writes a lot, that's good. If she revises a lot, that's even better. She should not only write about what she knows but about what she doesn't know. It extends the imagination...
...there any dreams or goals that you have yet to fulfill? -Janie Crawford, Syracuse, N.Y.I have two. Well, three, really. Two involve novels that I'm going to write and haven't written. The third is immortality. [Laughs.] I don't mean my work. I mean...
...this is drawn into stark relief by “A Million Penguins.” It’s not long before things become hopelessly meta, as in George’s mid-narrative musing: to Jim’s question, “So a community can write a novel?” he answers, “Yes, but only a humorous one…It is humor that is shared by a community...
...it’s no surprise that Venkatesan has had trouble finding a lawyer: Her arguments seem groundless. Venkatesan has flip-flopped a number of times about whether or not she will drop the case, but as this issue goes to press, she still plans to sue and to write her autobiography. To do so would be unfair to students, and would only turn any of her potentially legitimate concerns into the worst kind of farce...
...What a line! How perfectly matched are all those sliding consonants to Sondheim’s music. Many have said that “Sweeney Todd” is more an opera than a musical, and they’re not far off. Sondheim does not write songs that recapitulate a preceding scene in musical form. His songs move the plot along, they reveal crucial things about different characters, and they draw the audience ever deeper into the show’s own twisted charisma. The Mainstage production, however, still has a lot of musical work to do. Friday?...