Howard Jacobson Wins the Booker Prize

For the rest of the semester, we will be featuring select students’ creative writing that they are producing in our workshop classes. The work you will read will range from poetry, fiction, nonfiction and plays. Please check back frequently as we hope to showcase a different student’s writing twice weekly.For our first feature, I am…

ME: So, Mr. Very Famous Author, I hope that you are as excited to come to GW as we are to have you in residence this coming spring. FAMOUS AUTHOR: Indeed I am. ME: It’s a big deal for us, and we’d like to celebrate it. FAMOUS AUTHOR: I see. ME: I’ve been charged with…

[fig 1: The IMDb doesn’t know what Dante looks like]by J J Cohen So John Filardi, an alumnus of the GW English Department, is here teaching a course on screenwriting, focused upon comedy. By all accounts it has been a terrific class. Today he invited Emmanuella Chiriqui (Sloan from Entourage) to his class. When I…

Did you read this in The Hatchet? Haven’t I been saying something like this for a long time? Give Sol Café that fishbowl lounge thing and let’s have some poetry readings there. Share on FacebookTweet

Sandra Bernhard really did visit the English Department on Thursday, and we have the photographic evidence: behold some pontificating in Rome Hall 771 NOT being conducted by an English department professor. Bernhard made a guest appearance in Faye Moskowitz’s creative writing class, then lingered in our seminar room to mingle with students, faculty, and (as…

The following was sent by faculty member Pati Griiffith, who is helping to edit the plays. Highlights of Kennedy Center “From Prison to the Stage” Show 2009 On September 5, 2009 the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC will explode with the finest plays and music written by prisoners across America. This year’s edition of “From…