Nancy Miller recalled her friendship with three brilliant friends: from Columbia, Yale, and Stanford respectively. The book is split into three parts with each part designated for a specific friend. Each part contains several sections with each section providing a…
letter to a peer
Dear Evan, I hope this letter finds you well. I would like to share with you what happens to my writing project recently and I hope I may get some feedback from you. For this past summer, I tried to…
Reading response of Vietnamerica
First, I had lots of trouble with the names. After reading for about 30 pages, I decided to write down all the names on a piece of paper. And, at that time, I discovered that at the front and at…
Reading Response of “Go Ahead in the Rain”
Reading Response of “Go Ahead in the Rain” I was not familiar with hip hop and rap culture. This is an educational experience for me. Abdurraqib has a particular way to write a memoir. He wrote the memoir in the…
Wikipedia page – Wim Vijverberg
Wim P. Vijverberg (born in Naaldwijk, the Netherlands, 1955) is a Professor of Economics at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center and a Research Fellow at IZA Institute of Labor Economics. He was born to a greenhouse…
Response of reading “the situation and the story”
I am an apprentice in this field. I must admit that I seem to know what Gornick was talking about; but, at the same time, I don’t think I really know what she was talking about. I have a few…
Footnote -Vijverberg
* There are many Vijverbergs in the Netherlands. One of the streets near the center of The Hague close to the Parliament is called “Vijverberg.” The elder Wim Vijverberg I knew married his wife Plonie right after the Second World…
Reading Response of Hollywood’s Eve
In her note to the reader, Lili Anolik mentioned that this book, Hollywood’s Eve, is a biography in the non-traditional sense —a case history as well as a cultural; a critical appreciation; a sociological study; … a memoir in disguise;…
