May 2014 – Princeton Writes

Meet Thomas Garcia ’16, Social Media Coordinator

Stephanie Whetstone2014-05-27T21:37:55-04:00

This is the second of a three-part series of profiles featuring undergraduates who have made a significant difference in the life of Princeton Writes in 2013-2014, its inaugural year. The profiles were prepared by Emily Reardon ’16. Thomas Garcia was raised in Pharr, Texas, which is located deep in the Rio Grande Valley, nestled along the Mexican border. With a large Hispanic population, English is primarily learned as a second language in Pharr. Greatly influenced by the environment of the southwestern city from which he hails, Thomas is looking to major in English, with a primary focus on education and helping students bridge [...]

Meet Thomas Garcia ’16, Social Media CoordinatorStephanie Whetstone2014-05-27T21:37:55-04:00

All Greek to Me

Stephanie Whetstone2020-01-14T14:30:08-05:00

All Greek to Me One of the great strengths – and joys – of English is its diverse linguistic origins and the abandon with which it incorporates words from other languages. As David Crystal puts it in The Story of English in 100 Words, "English is a vacuum-cleaner of a language," so much so that "several hundred languages have contributed to its lexical character." However, the problem with loanwords, as these borrowings are called, is that their meaning can be lost on those who do not know their language of origin. A classic example is "hoi polloi," a Greek term that [...]

All Greek to MeStephanie Whetstone2020-01-14T14:30:08-05:00

Meet Emily Reardon ’16, Undergraduate Fellow

Stephanie Whetstone2014-05-04T23:41:29-04:00

This is the first of a three-part series of profiles featuring undergraduates who have made a significant difference in the life of Princeton Writes in 2013-2014, its inaugural year. The profiles were prepared by Emily Reardon '16. Emily Reardon was raised in Little Silver, New Jersey, not more than 50 minutes east of Princeton, right along the Atlantic. While her life and travels, to this point, have not taken her far outside New Jersey and her small town, with their safety and sameness, she turned, at a young age, to creative writing. Through writing, she was able to journey around the [...]

Meet Emily Reardon ’16, Undergraduate FellowStephanie Whetstone2014-05-04T23:41:29-04:00

A Gesture Life (1999) by Chang-rae Lee

Stephanie Whetstone2014-05-01T12:00:00-04:00

Critical Assessment "Lee's portrayal of Hata is written in unfashionably decorous prose, a language so fine and poised that its carefully situated eruptions seem even more radical. (When the absence of simple courtesies can seem viscerally disturbing, you know you're in the hands of a virtuoso.) There are flourishes of language and lovely summaries of character that seem from time to time like the last lines of a torch song. Lee takes on history, war and peace, life and death, the class system, the ghosts of American progress, the family, aging and unresolved international war crimes. . . . His novel [...]

A Gesture Life (1999) by Chang-rae LeeStephanie Whetstone2014-05-01T12:00:00-04:00

Meet Thomas Garcia ’16, Social Media Coordinator

All Greek to Me

Meet Emily Reardon ’16, Undergraduate Fellow

A Gesture Life (1999) by Chang-rae Lee

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