Nicholson Baker’s mind captures the “fine suddenness” of every moment. His work fixates on the minutiae of the everyday experience while largely ignoring the notion of a plot. His dense, accurate prose tightens the reader’s grip on reality. Two of his more recent projects, however, develop a compelling and sophisticated narrative. His two most recent novels, “The Anthologist” (2009) and...
Culture
Sophomores cook up new Culinary Arts Club
Sophomores Isabelle Parell and Dominic Whalen stepped onto campus this semester armed with knives and aprons, hungry to start the first Hillsdale club revolving around food — the Culinary Arts Club. Parell and Whalen are now the president and vice president of the Culinary Arts Club, which they formed in order to provide culinary education and cooking opportunities. Parell was...
Book sales and tawdry tales: Evangelicals’ secret sexual revolution
American evangelical Christians had their own sexual revolution in the 1970s, Daniel Silliman claimed at a lecture Monday. Silliman ’06 spoke on “Selling Sex at the Christian Bookstore: How Market Forces Shaped the Secular Fantasy of American Evangelicals.” Currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Notre Dame, Silliman claims that though it may seem a no-brainer to place evangelicals...
Get sketchy with A.R.T. this week
Students and aspiring artists can hone their creative talents at Sketchy Sundays, an event hosted by Hillsdale’s art honorary Alpha Rho Tau — the next of which is Nov. 6. The bi-monthly event, which runs until Dec. 11, provides a model for students to engage in figure-drawing and allows them cultivate their portrait abilities outside of class, according to...
