Izzy Kornblatt-Stier, Author at The Phoenix

SEPTA says it may shutter local rail line in 2015

As part of a proposed “Service Realignment Plan” released several weeks ago by Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority officials, service on the Media/Elwyn regional rail line, which provides service between Elwyn and Center City Philadelphia and serves Swarthmore, would be suspended indefinitely in

October 3, 2013

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Grown-Up Stories: Summer Book Recommendations

Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall 2018, the DG has merged with The Phoenix. See the about page to read more about the DG. White Noise,

May 2, 2013

Campus Journal

A Writer’s Odyssey: Jonathan Franzen

At one point during his January 22 lecture “Becoming Jonathan Franzen: A Writer’s Odyssey,” English professor Phil Weinstein launched into a vigorous dramatic reading of a great passage from Franzen’s essay “Two Ponies,” a transcription of an argument between Franzen’s two very

January 24, 2013

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Grown-Up Stories: Winter Break Book Recommendations

Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall 2018, the DG has merged with The Phoenix. See the about page to read more about the DG. Reviewing new

December 12, 2012

Arts & Features·Voices

Grown-Up Stories: Bolaño’s True Policeman is Vulnerable, Experimental

Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall 2018, the DG has merged with The Phoenix. See the about page to read more about the DG. A discovery

December 4, 2012

Campus Journal

Life of Pi: The (Other) Boy Who Lived

About halfway through Ang Lee’s extraordinary 2001 movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, just as the pace is quickening and the plot is intensifying, we suddenly find ourselves in an empty desert. This is a flashback, but we do not yet know this.

November 29, 2012

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Grown-Up Stories: Beyond the Tricks of David Foster Wallace

Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall 2018, the DG has merged with The Phoenix. See the about page to read more about the DG. Jonathan Franzen,

November 26, 2012

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Grown-Up Stories: Tom Wolfe’s “Back to Blood” Not Worth It!

Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall 2018, the DG has merged with The Phoenix. See the about page to read more about the DG. The Miami

November 19, 2012

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Grown-Up Stories: James Wood’s New Essay Collection Provides Unique and Insightful Criticism

Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall 2018, the DG has merged with The Phoenix. See the about page to read more about the DG. “So luminous

November 5, 2012

Arts & Features·Voices

Grown-Up Stories: Zadie Smith’s New Novel Disappoints

Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall 2018, the DG has merged with The Phoenix. See the about page to read more about the DG. Zadie Smith

October 29, 2012

Izzy Kornblatt-Stier

SEPTA says it may shutter local rail line in 2015

Grown-Up Stories: Summer Book Recommendations

A Writer’s Odyssey: Jonathan Franzen

Grown-Up Stories: Winter Break Book Recommendations

Grown-Up Stories: Bolaño’s True Policeman is Vulnerable, Experimental

Life of Pi: The (Other) Boy Who Lived

Grown-Up Stories: Beyond the Tricks of David Foster Wallace

Grown-Up Stories: Tom Wolfe’s “Back to Blood” Not Worth It!

Grown-Up Stories: James Wood’s New Essay Collection Provides Unique and Insightful Criticism

Grown-Up Stories: Zadie Smith’s New Novel Disappoints

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