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Contributors
Of Novelists and Novices
Identifying the Muse
Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson says Porochista Khakpour, A&S
'02 (MA), made for the perfect subject for her story, "American Girl" — open
enough to discuss her art, yet with a depth and exoticism
that mark her as a particularly compelling study.
"Porochista is disarmingly honest about her life and her
work, and that really comes out in her writing," says
Dickinson, a contributing editor at Architect who
also writes about buildings, design, and culture for
publications like Metropolis and The New York
Times Magazine, and on her blog, Urban Palimpsest.
"Nothing is sacred, nothing is off limits, and that
willingness to take risks is admirable."
The Start of a Great Adventure
When we asked sophomore Raford "Rip" Bussey Jr. to write an
essay for "Into the Woods," our
feature about Pre-Orientation, he rifled through his back
pages. It "required me to relive a very significant part of
my freshman year in college," says Bussey. "I had never
considered the ripple effect that it has had. After turning
over every mental rock in order to divine just what the
trip 'meant to me,' I found that my participation may very
well have determined my college experience." Bussey, who
has written for
The Johns Hopkins News-Letter and The Augusta
Chronicle, hopes to practice law one day. —
MA
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