school, no one ever made it to college, so he never saw the point of education. As a result, thirty years ... so much of writing must be, if even the most common feature of our everyday lives seems unusual when ... the novel, his writing of it, and issues of language and power in contemporary Asia. TQ: Masatsugu Ono ...
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don’t want to be rhetorically and emotionally manipulative with your readers, and I think if I had tried ... king.” It’s more like “Don’t quite believe this.” So Fielding puts an essay writer into his essays. He ... for all of the lies he tells, there exists a certain desperation in his insistence that his actions ...
talk about writ ing and read aloud to us, very occasionally stuff that a student had writ ten, and ... more often works by wonderful, famous writers he had known, such as his old friend Flannery ... a Rolex watch." Listening to him read such estimable work made me want to try my hand. I think he ...
immigrants” about coming to this country. And so Mayor realizes that he can interview the people in his ... apartment building. So he starts interviewing them, and the title of his report that he turns in is “The ... on? CH: Pretty much. Yeah, it’s interesting. I had a student ask me one time if I had trouble letting ...
Winter 2004
be in my place? What if he had not had his campaigns in Toulon or Egypt or the passage of Mont Blanc ... right. It was like this: I asked myself one day, the following question-what if Napoleon had happened to ... anything. They pinned all their hopes on me. I was a student, but I couldn't afford university. So ...
name it. They helped for a while, but he got so sluggish he'd spend all day at school with his ... breaks things. He screams and hits if he doesn't get his way. The other day, he told me he ... ents, refer to him as Master, and he was President to the students who could memorize a long string of ...
middle age of a black musi cian. That's what that was about. Again, I used to write ten pages ... a day so I could do a novel in ten weeks, and they would go through three drafts. I didn't know ... Thing. And he said, You know, if you think you'll ever have to climb over it, then you ...
sake. Once he has controlled his surprise mechanism, he seems really happy. I try to justify his ... shoulders; he has me sit down in front of his desk and calls over lots of employees, exhibiting me to them as ... a harsh voice that any student can turn out the nonsense I write. That in the last few years things have ...
school. When she graduated, she bought herself a good dress-ten dollars, a terrible extravagance at the ... framed photo of her hundredth birthday party and asks if I'd like to see her gown. I'm ... War I. When he deserted the family, she sold the milk cow and yearling calf for one hundred-and-fifty ...
what I was writing was semi-incoherent, so there was a lot less pressure. I typed the whole thing ... write very much during the school year. I become ridiculously obsessed with my students’ work. But the ... TQO: You earned an MFA in writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2004. What did the ...