Tom Mallon on Christopher Hitchens
A portrait by Jeff Singer. (Click through for more about the photographer’s memory of the shoot.) |
This tribute was posted on National Review Online on December 17, 2011.
A portrait by Jeff Singer. (Click through for more about the photographer’s memory of the shoot.) |
This tribute was posted on National Review Online on December 17, 2011.
E.L. Doctorow will visit with students and then give a public reading Thursday. On April 7, the English Department will be hosting a reading by acclaimed writer E.L. Doctorow. The author of eleven novels, Doctorow has received numerous awards for his work, including the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the…
Media Credit: Aude White/Hatchet photographerFrom today’s edition: English department hosts renowned Jewish authorMichael Chabon delivers reading in Jack Morton by Joe MancinikHatchet Reporter Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon’s reading in the Jack Morton Auditorium Monday night included pieces ranging from his thoughts on President Obama’s election to his own son’s circumcision. Chabon appeared as part…
Most readers of this blog know that the GW English Department has been off to a great start this semester, with a range of successful events. If you follow us on Facebook (and if you don’t, you should!–check out how easy it is with the button on the right side of this page), you also…
Read the official press release: GW ALUMNUS AND TRUSTEE DAVID BRUCE SMITH FUNDS NEW COURSE ON CONTEMPORARY JEWISH AMERICAN LITERATURE TO CREATE A “UNIQUELY GW EXPERIENCE” WASHINGTON – A new course on contemporary Jewish American works of literature has debuted at The George Washington University this spring thanks to a significant gift from David Bruce…
to Prof. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, recipient of a highly competitive American Council of Learned Societies Grant for 2011-12. to Prof. Thomas Mallon, winner of the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The $10,000 award is for a writer “whose work merits recognition for the quality of its prose…
For reasons that will become more clear very soon, may we suggest that you add to your summer reading list a work by Edward P. Jones? Perhaps his Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Known World? Or maybe his breathtaking collection of stories All Aunt Hagar’s Children? These are books that are well worth your time…