Trey Ellis The GW English Department is pleased to welcome Trey Ellis as part of the Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series. Ellis, currently an associate professor in the Graduate School of the Arts at Columbia University, is a novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and essayist. He is the author of several novels, Platitudes, Home Repairs, Bedtime Stories:…
The most recent Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction, Junot Diaz, is reading from his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao this Wednesday (September 10th) at Politics and Prose at 7 PM (though it’s advisable to be early). This is a great opportunity to meet one of the most celebrated young authors in the…
January Edition of the Lowercase Reading Series: Tara Campbell, Koye Oyedeji, and Colin Dwyer I recently had the pleasure of attending the lowercase at Petworth Citizen, a monthly reading series hosted on the first Wednesday of every month by 826dc. The nonprofit was represented by Christina Mueller, a GWU English Major Alum, and Gus Caravalho,…
If you, like me, forgot to turn your television to the News Hour on Valentine’s Day to listen to poet and GW faculty member Jane Shore read Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “One Art” — despair not! You can watch the entire performance via streaming video here. And, for your enjoyment, the poem itself. One Art The…
What are you waiting for? Come to Michael Bennett’s talk! Prof. Michael Bennett (BA ’02) will be returning to GW this week to speak about his book Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd. His talk, on Tuesday, March 27 at 10:30 a.m. in Rome Hall 663, is open to all. Bennett is Assistant Professor of English…
There is the Superbowl for football fans, dozens of music festivals for anyone who owns an ipod, and there is even Comic Con for all of those scifi/fantasy/comic book geeks out there. So what is there for bookworms? Maybe there are not hundreds of festivals in honor of books (although there should be!), but there…
