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Tag: Nonfiction
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Nation & World
A boozy writer who crossed out the adjective
Harvard grad Leslie Jamison on her new book, “The Recovering.”
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Nation & World
For hungry young writers, a kindred guide
Celebrated writer Michael Pollan talks to the Gazette about joining the Creative Writing Program as the Lewis K. Chan Arts Lecturer.
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Nation & World
‘Baggage’ claims Gish Jen
At a lunchtime talk at Harvard Law School, writer Gish Jen discussed her latest book, “The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap,” making the case for the sociological and cultural patterns that influence many aspects of identity.
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Nation & World
A too-short life, examined
D.T. Max, author of a new biography of David Foster Wallace, sat down with professor and critic James Wood to discuss the writer’s legacy and his brief time at Harvard, a catalyst for the breakdown and recovery that inspired much of Wallace’s masterpiece, “Infinite Jest.”
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Nation & World
Jasanoff’s ‘Liberty’ recognized
On Thursday, the National Book Critics Circle recognized Harvard Professor Maya Jasanoff with its award for general nonfiction for “Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary War” (Knopf).
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Nation & World
Book shortlisted for Gelber Prize
“Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China,” by Ezra F. Vogel, published by Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, has been shortlisted for the 2012 Lionel Gelber Prize.
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Nation & World
Writing, clear and simple
Clarity and simplicity are frequent themes in the Harvard College Winter Writing Program, a two-week Winter Break seminar where undergraduate nonfiction writers learn from some of the country’s best authors, teachers, and journalists.
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Nation & World
A master at his craft
Author and Harvard graduate Tracy Kidder is the first writer in residence at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. For the fall semester, he is sharing his insights about the art of writing with the Harvard community.
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Nation & World
Lukas Prize Project Awards announced for 2010
The Nieman Foundation at Harvard and Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism recently announced this year’s recipients of the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards for exceptional nonfiction.