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…
Creative Writing and Africana Studies present media storyteller, Nyssa Chow, Wednesday, October 17th at 6:30 pm in Gelman 702. Share on FacebookTweet
Recently I was invited to give the Holloway Lecture at McDaniel College. Held once a year on a literary topic of wide interest, this lecture is a big event on campus. Students in a communications class have a competition to design the poster. English majors read work published by the speaker, and acquaint themselves with…
The 2017-2018 Jenny McKean Moore recipient, Sally Wen Mao, will be reading from her latest book, Mad Honey Symposium, on September 14th in Gelman Library (Room 702) at 7:30 pm. National Book Award Winner Terrance Hayes says of Mao’s debut: “The luminous image of a mouth ‘digesting light’ and later spitting ‘the light out because it…
On Thursday, October 28, a herd of anxious attendees–students, professors, the book-selling rep–heralded yet another successful reading in the fall JMM Reading Series. At 7:51 pm the doors remained locked; I (perhaps peevishly) took pleasure in each arriving individual, for they approached the shut doors and the unrelenting deadbolt with a fervor I found refreshing….
The Jane Austen Society of North America announces: Registration for our September 7 program ends Tuesday, September 2 [now extended to September 6]. Cost $20. Click here to pay with Paypal or download a reservation form. Professor Tara Wallace Austen’s Sea-Change: Re-Writing Sense and Sensibility with Tara Wallace, GWU Sunday, September 7 at 2:00 pm Classroom at Total Wine McLean Shopping…
