by KATHARINE SCHWAB
Kenny Leung, resident pianist of Larkin in Stern Hall, can’t read music. Instead, he can play any song he knows by ear. He’s known for his adaptive medley—listeners shout out a song while he is playing and he transitions into it effortlessly. When I sat down in the Larkin lounge with him and asked for a demonstration, Leung transitioned from Macklemore’s “Thrift Shop,” to frat party fav “Get Low,” to “Radioactive” by Imagine Dragons.
by ALEC ARCENEAUX
Axe and Palm, light of my late-nights, fire of my bowels. My sin, my meal plan dollars. Axe and Palm: the tongue making me take a trip of three steps down Lomita to TAP, at two a.m., while tipsy. Axe. And. Palm.
by KATHARINE SCHWAB
When listening to Alex Clare’s The Lateness of the Hour on repeat for the past several months, I pictured Clare as dark, handsome, and brooding, a man whose soul poured like liquid from his throat. When I arrived at the Regency Ballroom on April 23rd for his concert, Clare turned out to be a rather short British redhead, complete with full beard and knitted beret, with an endearing awkwardness and a smile only slightly less jolly than Santa Claus.
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Winner of the Stanford Story Slam
by SOPHIA WESTWOOD and SARAH STERMAN
I was chained to the rack. Prisoners stretched to my right and left, no room to lie down even if that cursed bolt hadn’t forced me upright in the chill night.
by T. DOYLE
This profile is third of three in support of the Lane Lecture Series. T.C. Boyle reads in Cemex Auditorium on Monday, May 6th at 8pm.
“I want to be taken away to a different place every time.”
-T.C. Boyle, in an interview with Peter Wild
Tom Coraghessan Boyle’s twenty-four books of fiction—fourteen of them novels, ten of them short story collections—include the novel World’s End (1987), winner of the PEN Faulkner Prize; The Tortilla Curtain (1995), a national Book Award Finalist; and “T. C. Boyle Stories” (1998), winner of the PEN Malamud Prize.
by JACK DUANE
The dust has settled, quite literally, on Weekend 1 of Coachella 2013 in Indio, CA. After three days of standing, swaying, and sweating it’s time to break down the hits and misses from this year’s festival.
Announcing our first collaborative writing competition! Submissions due April 22nd.
by KATHARINE SCHWAB
Richard Powers fits right in at Stanford. One of the first people to have his genome decoded, he has worked as a computer programmer and planned to major in physics while studying at Urbana-Champaign. But most importantly, he’s a prolific novelist and National Book Award winner with his eleventh volume on the way. His work fuses his fascination with science, stemming from what Tobias Wolff called an “extraordinary wide-ranging curiosity,” with the humanity he ultimately finds within his characters and his readers.
