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Rebecca Dalzell


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Under the Surface

At seven in the morning Carl crouches beneath the intersection of 16th and JFK, picks up his guitar and plays the blues.

Summer Reads: Up in the Old Hotel

Comfortably settled on our West Philadelphia campus -- in our Logan Hall classrooms and Freshgrocer shopping aisles -- it is easy to forget how much of Philadelphia we Penn students avoid, or just don't see.

Summer Reads: In the Old Hotel

Comfortably settled on our West Philadelphia campus -- in our Logan Hall classrooms and Freshgrocer shopping aisles -- it is easy to forget how much of Philadelphia we Penn students avoid, or just don't see.

Summer Reads: Prague

Arthur Phillips must have written his first novel Prague with a well-worn edition of The Sun Also Rises sitting next to his computer; for both books are studies of "Lost Generations." While Hemingway's characters are lost in the trenches of the Great War however, Phillips' rootless coterie merely proclaims itself to be lost. As Mark, the Canadian, researches nostalgia, as John writes cocky ex-pat dispatches in BudapesToday, and as Emily guards her Nebraskan virtue, Hungary is picking up the debris from the demolition of the Iron Curtain.

Film: Masterful merchant

What Wharton student doesn't like to picture him or herself, 30 years from now, at a party hosted by a Spielberg type in Beverly Hills, drinking martinis in the company of $5,000 noses? If only Wharton taught books before box office returns or recommended novels instead of subscriptions to Variety.
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