Isabel E. Kaplan
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Excerpting Senior Writers: Isabel Kaplan '12
Isabel Kaplan reflects on writing her fiction thesis and shares an excerpt from her work.
How (Not) to Write a Sex Scene
Has sufficient attention been paid to the art of writing sex scenes? Are authors unaware of the wealth of writing tips to be gleaned from Cosmopolitan magazine’s monthly Red Hot Reads?
One Novel, 30 Days
Writing is like sex: The best way to learn is by doing.
Poetry as Texting
We have inadvertently developed poetic skills by crystallizing and condensing our ideas.
In Response to Perloff
I am flattered that such a distinguished and accomplished literary scholar as Professor Marjorie Perloff has commented on my recent column, “In Someone Else’s Words.”
In Someone Else's Words
Any self-respecting literary scholar, writer, or aspiring writer should know better.
Growing Up With Rape
Being raped altered and shaped my mother’s identity, and I always knew that.
The Balcony
In Jean Genet’s “The Balcony,” sex is theater and power is a performance.
McGuane Covers Strange Terrain in ‘Driving’
In Thomas McGuane’s tenth novel, “Driving on the Rim,” a friend of the narrator suggests that he “get some advice about operating on a somewhat different plane. Neither I nor anyone else in town can figure out where the hell you’re coming from.”
Portrait of an Artist: Rebecca D. Costa
Rebecca D. Costa is a sociobiologist whose first book, “The Watchman’s Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction,” explores current ...