I wrote One Half of A Manifesto and Digital Maoism at a time when there wasn't a literature of criticism yet.
Writing, however, was already providing her with the tool of detachment to cope with her sense of estrangement, and she knew, as early as then, what her vocation would be: she wanted to grow up and "write one-half poetry and one-half autobiography".
"Since 1947," he writes, "one-half of the nation's families and unattached individuals have had an income too small to provide them with a maintenance standard of living," which he sets at $4,500 a year for a family.
Then we saw Lena had written five by herself -- a lot of times when you ask people to write five, then they write one-and-a-half, freak out, and have a meltdown.
Joseph Conrad famously wrote, "One only writes half the book; the other half is with the reader," so what I bring to this novel as a former boarding-school boy is, I expect, rather different to that which will be brought by the intended readership of, I imagine, predominantly girls and women.
Under pressure to produce a plan, Bill Clinton half-heartedly wrote one based on the "pay or play" idea, which would require employers either to cover all their workers or pay a tax.
If anyone had the authority to do so, it was this onetime trumpet player, thoroughly versed in the culture of blues and jazz, who had also written one of the half-dozen or so greatest American novels, "Invisible Man".
As a play, "Howard Katz" feels only half written — one cannot help wondering ultimately what the point of it is — but Molina fills the stage with his almost absurd passion for performance.
Sarah Lotz, who has been writing as one half of SL Grey (with Louis Greenberg) since 2011 and as half of Lily Herne (with her daughter Savannah) since 2013, took the best newcomer award for her breakthrough solo novel, The Three, a supernatural thriller.
