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(09/25/12 2:00am)
In the acknowledgments section of his latest book, Mitch Albom writes, "Some books are tougher than others. Thanks to all who showed patience with me on this one." The difficulty Albom experienced in penning "The Time Keeper," released Sept. 4, is strikingly evident in the weak plot, flat characters and cliche themes created by this New York Times bestselling author.
(09/11/12 2:00am)
For over a century, many novelists have chronicled the experiences of college students. Nathaniel Hawthorne's first novel "Fanshawe," for example, is based on the author's time at Bowdoin College in the 1820s. F. Scott Fitzgerald's early novel "This Side of Paradise" explores the post-World War I "lost generation" through the lens of Princeton University student Amory Blaine. Tom Wolfe's "I Am Charlotte Simmons" depicts the sexual debauchery of the students at fictional Dupont University. And now, 26-year-old Harvard University graduate and Huffington Post college editor Rebecca Harrington offers a fresh look at college life in her first novel "Penelope," which was released earlier this summer.
(05/16/12 2:00am)
When I encounter a truly stunning sentence or thought-provoking phrase in a novel, I gently dog-ear whatever page I'm reading so I can later return to the passage and savor its syntax. When I closed the cover after finishing Toni Morrison's new novel "Home," I realized I had folded down almost every other page as I devoured the work in a single, one-hour sitting in Sanborn. As one might expect from a novel penned by the Nobel Prize-winning author of "Beloved," "Song of Solomon" and "A Mercy," Morrison's "Home" is a stirring story encased in vivid prose and tender narration.
(05/08/12 2:00am)
I must admit that I initially could not help but roll my eyes at the title of the Wheelan's book, expecting a stream of cliched, cookie-cutter remarks often heard in college graduation speeches. I was unfamiliar with both Wheelan, an economics professor at the College, and his Class Day speech, so I skeptically pondered what he could have to say that would be different.
(04/25/12 2:00am)
The Montgomery Endowment was established in 1977 by Kenneth Montgomery '25 and his wife Harle to bring luminaries to Dartmouth for "the advancement of the academic realm of the College," according to the Montgomery Endowment's website. Since 1977, over 180 Montgomery Fellows have visited the College, including Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, Michel Foucault, Gerald Ford, Sheryl Crow and Bobby McFerrin.
(04/24/12 2:00am)
In the book "Imagine: How Creativity Works," Jonah Lehrer, a journalist and the bestselling author of "Proust Was a Neuroscientist" and "How We Decide," explores the science behind human innovation. In each chapter, Lehrer investigates factors that foster or hinder creativity by illustrating examples in which imaginative people including Bob Dylan, the creator of Barbie and the inventor of the Post-it note have embarked on their creative processes.
(03/28/12 2:00am)
Fans of bestselling author and Hanover resident Jodi Picoult will relish racing through the pages of the author's latest book, "Lone Wolf," but they also might find themselves underwhelmed by the plotline. Released in February, "Lone Wolf" chronicles the story of a wolf biologist named Luke from Beresford, N.H., who becomes braindead after he is in a car accident with his daughter Cara. Much of the novel surrounds the way in which Luke's family his ex-wife Georgie, his estranged son Edward and Cara deals with the agonizing dilemma of whether or not to take Luke off life support.
(03/06/12 4:00am)
Although I am far from culinarily inclined, I was ecstatic to learn that "Top Chef" judge and "Top Chef: Just Desserts" host Gail Simmons had written a memoir. In "Talking With My Mouth Full: My Life as a Professional Eater," released last month by Hyperion, Simmons begins each chapter with a mouthwatering portrayal of a particular meal or a moment in her life in which food played a key role. Descriptions like "a loaf of zucchini bread with flecks of green," "a puffy, eggy German pancake with blueberries" and "delicate gnocchi in red pepper sauce" remind readers of Simmons' prowess as both a writer and an eater.
(02/22/12 4:00am)
A Dartmouth alumnus will soon make his mark on the literary scene, as the debut novel of Elliot Ohlansky '04 will be released later this month by recently established e-book publishing company The Write Deal. Ohlansky's novel, titled "Robert's Rules of Karaoke," tells the story of two recent college graduates navigating bachelorhood in Boston and New York.
(02/22/12 4:00am)
A Dartmouth alumnus will soon make his mark on the literary scene, as the debut novel of Elliot Ohlansky '04 will be released later this month by recently established e-book publishing company The Write Deal. Ohlansky's novel, titled "Robert's Rules of Karaoke," tells the story of two recent college graduates navigating bachelorhood in Boston and New York.
(02/07/12 4:00am)
Like most Charlotte Bronte lovers, I was more than skeptical when I first heard about Margot Livesey's latest novel, a modern retelling of "Jane Eyre" that was released this month. In writing "The Flight of Gemma Hardy," Livesey took an enormous risk, creating a modern-day adaptation of one of the must beloved Victorian classics.
(01/25/12 4:00am)
There is nothing quite like the experience of reading a novel so enthralling that it propels you to stay up all night furiously flipping through its pages, preoccupies you throughout the school day and motivates you to rush back to your dorm room and neglect your homework until you have devoured every last word. John Green's latest novel "The Fault in Our Stars" possesses this power.
(01/12/12 4:00am)
Students in the program, which is available to those with all levels of experience, will receive instruction in the Letterpress and Bindery Studios. They will also have the chance to participate in special book arts workshops like "The Dancing Pen," which will focus on the art of cursive penmanship.
(01/05/12 4:00am)
Finckel and Setzer have played together since 1979 as members of the world-renowned Emerson String Quartet, an ensemble that has garnered eight Grammy Awards, three Gramophone Awards and the Avery Fisher Prize, arguably the most sought-after honor for chamber music groups.
(01/04/12 4:00am)
While perusing the "100 Notable Books of 2011" in The New York Times' Holiday Gift Guide last week and guiltily realizing that I had only read a handful of the chosen titles I came across a description of Helen Schulman's novel "This Beautiful Life." Schulman's best-seller relates the saga of a 15-year-old boy whose life unravels after he receives, and mistakenly forwards to a friend, a sexually provocative video made by a younger girl. As one who is often resistant to technology and overly anxious about the perils of online interactions, I decided to delve into Schulman's story.
(11/30/11 4:00am)
Released by Random House on Nov. 1, Kaling's comedic memoir is a series of witty essays in which she chronicles her childhood as a "chubster," her years at Dartmouth where Kaling "went to pursue her love of white people and North Face parkas," she writes her post-college employment struggles and her ultimate rise to success as a writer, actress and executive producer for "The Office."
(11/09/11 4:00am)
Although Eugenides is not the most prolific of his authorial peers "The Marriage Plot" is his third book in his 20-year career as a novelist he has enjoyed an enviable literary career. His first novel, "The Virgin Suicides" (1993) was turned into an award-winning film directed by Sofia Coppola. "Middlesex" (2002) received the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2003. "The Marriage Plot," released on Oct. 11, is already being hailed by critics in The New York Times Book Review and the Chronicle of Higher Education, and rightfully so.
(11/02/11 3:00am)
For my birthday a few months ago, my aunt gave me a tattered, leather-bound book titled "The Dartmouth Murders," written in 1929 by Clifford Orr '22. As a sucker for old texts, I relished inhaling the musty smell and thumbing through the yellowing pages, but set aside "The Dartmouth Murders" to enjoy after Summer term finals.
(10/19/11 2:00am)
Elissa Schappell's collection of short stories, "Blueprints for Building Better Girls," released in September, provides a fiercely honest and darkly witty glimpse into the lives of women from the 1970s to the present day. Tied together by its bold language and cynical tone, Schappell's narrative shatters stereotypical portrayals of female archetypes such as the goody two-shoes, the party girl, the unhappy wife and the overbearing mother.
(10/12/11 2:00am)
It is undeniable that Shel Silverstein's poetry was a hallmark of most grade-school reading lists. I remember thoughtfully penning a language arts essay about the importance of gratitude and "The Giving Tree," proudly drawing my own "Boa Constrictor" in art class and coyly reciting "I Cannot Go To School Today" to my mother to try to escape a particularly terrifying second-grade swim test.