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"Make it new!" It's been over 20 years since I got my MFA, but that command still resounds. I remember learning it from Liam Rector, of blessed memory, then the director of the Bennington Writing Seminars. Liam was big and...
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Holding Up a Mirror to a Life in Medicine Alum Suzanne Koven, Mass General's inaugural writer-in-residence, reflects on imposter syndrome, family, and identity in new essay collection By Julia M. Klein / Published May 20, 2021 As a medical student and resident, Suzanne Koven, Med '86 (MD), '89 (PGF), HS '89, appreciated Johns Hopkins' distinguished history, dating to the pioneering 19th-century physician William Osler. "On the one hand, it instilled in me a very deep sense of pride and belonging to this rich heritage," she says in a Zoom interview co...
Ecco: 320 pages, $28 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. The novelist Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney turned 60 last August. How did she celebrate? “I cooked dinner for my family,” she recalls with an only slightly rueful smile. Sweeney and her husband, Mike, a longtime head writer for Conan O’Brien, left their New York City home in 2009 for Los Angeles. While COVID has put a damper on big birthday plans, Sweeney is surprisingly sanguine about life in Los Feliz. “I can walk in Griffith Park, for e...