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Remainder (2005) by Tom McCarthy

Stephanie Whetstone2015-11-01T12:00:27-05:00

Critical Assessment "The subject of identity – how human memory and reality might be manipulated by outside agents – features in countless futuristic books, stories and films, and has been especially popular in the last decade as advances in the visual, auditory and surgical arts have made us increasingly wary of trusting our senses. But McCarthy's superb stylistic control and uncanny imagination transport this novel beyond the borders of science fiction. His bleak humor, hauntingly affectless narrator and methodical expansion on his theme make "Remainder" more than an entertaining brain-teaser: it's a work of novelistic philosophy, as disturbing as it is [...]

Remainder (2005) by Tom McCarthyStephanie Whetstone2015-11-01T12:00:27-05:00

Cracking the Code

Stephanie Whetstone2020-01-14T14:15:11-05:00

Cracking the Code The recent movie, The Imitation Game, revealed how a team of British mathematicians and linguists collaborated to break the German Enigma code during World War II. They began with the premise that any code is made up of patterns. The trick was to translate the code into a pattern the team already understood: English. Understanding the words, however, wasn’t enough to break the code. The team also had to translate the Germans’ patterns of social behavior, culture, and, of course, human error. These are the same tools we use to decode language every day. Many English speakers are [...]

Cracking the CodeStephanie Whetstone2020-01-14T14:15:11-05:00

Meet Stephanie Whetstone, Assistant Program Director

Stephanie Whetstone2015-10-21T15:01:40-04:00

This fall, Princeton Writes ceased to be an army of one, thanks to the appointment of its first assistant program director, Stephanie Whetstone from Durham, North Carolina. A talented writer and teacher, she has devoted more than a decade to helping high school, community college, and university students in her region communicate more effectively. She recently talked about her life with Princeton Writes’ undergraduate fellow, Emily Reardon ’16, who prepared this profile. Stephanie Whetstone began her creative career as a sixth-grade poet in Kentucky. And even though she would marry a photographer, film documentaries, and fill her life with the [...]

Meet Stephanie Whetstone, Assistant Program DirectorStephanie Whetstone2015-10-21T15:01:40-04:00

vitiate (VĬSH-ē-āt)

Stephanie Whetstone2015-10-19T12:00:08-04:00

Definition (Verb) To render incomplete, imperfect, or faulty; to impair or spoil. In Context "Or so I argued against Arendt's view which, if put into practice, would surely vitiate what she hoped to invigorate and purify." Michael G. Gottsegen, The Political Thought of Hannah Arendt, 1994.

vitiate (VĬSH-ē-āt)Stephanie Whetstone2015-10-19T12:00:08-04:00

chaplet (CHĂP-lĭt)

Stephanie Whetstone2015-10-12T12:00:37-04:00

Definition (Noun) A wreath for the head, usually a garland of flowers or leaves, also of gold, precious stones, etc.; a circlet, coronal. In Context "A chaplet of fresh white dog roses and columbine crowned her brow and her cloak was pinned with a beautiful brooch of delicate blue enamel work." Elizabeth Chadwick, A Place Beyond Courage, 2007.

chaplet (CHĂP-lĭt)Stephanie Whetstone2015-10-12T12:00:37-04:00

interregnum (ĭn-tər-RĔG-nəm)

Stephanie Whetstone2015-10-05T12:00:21-04:00

Definition (Noun) A breach of continuity; an interval, pause, vacant space. In Context "For about fifteen years there was an interregnum in English literature, which makes a convenient division between the great men of the Napoleonic era and the great Victorians." William Ralph Inge, The Victorian Age, 1922.

interregnum (ĭn-tər-RĔG-nəm)Stephanie Whetstone2015-10-05T12:00:21-04:00

Americanah (2013) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Stephanie Whetstone2015-10-01T12:00:11-04:00

Critical Assessment "There are some novels that tell a great story and others that make you change the way you look at the world. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah is a book that manages to do both. "It is ostensibly a love story – the tale of childhood sweethearts at school in Nigeria whose lives take different paths when they seek their fortunes in America and England – but it is also a brilliant dissection of modern attitudes to race, spanning three continents and touching on issues of identity, loss and loneliness." Elizabeth Day, "Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Review," The Guardian, [...]

Americanah (2013) by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieStephanie Whetstone2015-10-01T12:00:11-04:00

Finding a Room of One’s Own

Stephanie Whetstone2020-01-14T14:16:18-05:00

Finding a Room of One’s Own At almost every reading I’ve ever been to, the first question asked of the author is, “What is your writing process?” Often, the author will describe a disciplined, solitary, almost Spartan life that begins at 4:30 a.m. each day at a small desk, rain or shine, in sickness and in health. This is the point in the Q & A when I sink into despair. Then I decide that half of these writers are embellishing; that the blissful early morning desk is fiction itself. Perhaps the perpetuation of this ideal comes from a desire to [...]

Finding a Room of One’s OwnStephanie Whetstone2020-01-14T14:16:18-05:00

milquetoast (MĬLK-tōst)

Stephanie Whetstone2015-09-14T12:00:42-04:00

Definition (Noun) A timid, submissive, or ineffectual person, a milksop. In Context "Soft-spoken, fastidious, a bird-watcher in his off-hours, Cramp struck some as a bit of a milquetoast." Pope Brock, Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam, 2008.

milquetoast (MĬLK-tōst)Stephanie Whetstone2015-09-14T12:00:42-04:00

horologe (HÔR-ə-lōj)

Stephanie Whetstone2015-09-07T12:00:58-04:00

Definition (Noun) An instrument for telling the hour; a timepiece; a dial, hour-glass, or clock. In Context "Carlyle often mused on the strange fact that the clock strikes to mark the change from hour to hour but no hammer in the horologe of time peals through the universe to announce the change from era to era." Max Freedman, "Much Sensible Advice Available for New Year If One Will Take It," Los Angeles Times, January 2, 1964.

horologe (HÔR-ə-lōj)Stephanie Whetstone2015-09-07T12:00:58-04:00

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