""My father later wrote about how much he hated children's books that had short words and talked down to their readers. He said the only way to enlarge a rubber band is to stretch it, and he believed the same goes for children - that they should always be reading things that are a little too hard.""
""Harvard had no creative nonfiction classes when I was there in the early '70s. I took a couple of fiction classes, and the main thing they taught me was that I shouldn't be a fiction writer.""
Anne Fadiman's new book, "Frog and Other Essays," covers diverse topics, including personal experiences with a dead pet frog and an old printer. Fadiman reflects on her upbringing in a literary family, emphasizing the importance of challenging reading material for children. She credits her time at Harvard Magazine with shaping her writing skills, despite the absence of creative nonfiction classes. Fadiman also discusses the role of AI in education and literature, highlighting the need for beauty and attention to detail in difficult times.
Read at Harvard Gazette
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]