The Washington Area Romanticists Group Hosts Anne McCarthy
Join us on Monday for a screening of The Line Has Shattered, a documentary on the 1963 Vancouver Poetry Conference with the Director, Robert McTavish. Where: Gelman Library, Room 214 2130 H Street, Washington, DC 20052 When: 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. RSVP Required. Email cathye@gwu.edu “The Line Has Shattered is an invaluable teaching tool as well as a…
Sunil Yapa will read from his debut novel, Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series Wednesday, February 8th, 7:30 PM Gelman 702 A novel set amid the heated conflict of Seattle’s 1999 World Trade Organization protests. On a rainy, cold day in November, young Victor—a boyish, scrappy world traveler…
Sandra Bernhard returns to Jewish Literature Live to begin the semester on Thursday, January 22 UPDATE: Sandra Bernhard’s schedule now requires her to stay in Los Angeles for rehearsals of four episodes of Two Broke Girls. It will be great to see her on the show, but it unfortunately means that her appearance is cancelled for…
GW’s Fourth Annual World Literature Residency is now underway, with Nokuthula Mazibuko of South Africa in residence at George Washington University for a month, thanks to collaboration between Columbian College of Arts and Sciences and the South African Embassy. Writer and director of documentary films, including The Spirit of No Surrender, Lady Was a Mshoza…
Author James Han Mattson will appear virtually to read from his newly released novel, Reprieve, and take part in a discussion about his work. James Han Mattson was born in Seoul, Korea and raised in North Dakota. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he has received grants from the Copernicus Society of America and…
Vikram Chandra, formerly a professor of English in our department, will be reading from his latest work on Thursday April 5 at 8PM (Marvin Center, Third Floor Amphitheatre). Chandra is the author of Red Earth and Pouring Rain which was awarded the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book. He is also the author of…