Festivating accomplished

In anticipation of Michael Chabon reading at GW on March 23 at 7 PM (Jack Morton Auditorium, SMPA), I offer this piece that I composed back in 2006. I was in the third grade when I first read this book, and already suffering the changes, the horns, wings and tusks that grow on your imagination…

As you know, award winning author Edward P Jones is our first Wang Professor of Contemporary Literature. He will be in residence in the English Department during the entire spring semester. Mr. Jones is a quirky, brilliant man. His novels and short stories are destined to be read for many years into the future. We…

[beautiful picture of Margaret Soltan by Nick Gingold, Senior Staff Photographer for the GW Hatchet]From today’s Hatchet, an interview with Professor Margaret Soltan:First of all, I wanted to talk to you about American writer David Foster Wallace, what he meant and what his suicide means for the literary world. My sense of it is that,…

Kevin Callahan It’s a pleasure to welcome two new student bloggers for English for spring 2012.  Junior Kevin Callahan,  an English major and journalism minor, is editor of the G.W. Review, one of GW’s two literary magazines. Since last fall, he has also been features editor of the GW Cherry Tree yearbook. In his free…

CANCELLATION The talk by poet and critic Adam Kirsch has been cancelled for this evening because of the weather. The talk was to have been in the Marvin Center Auditorium at 7 pm. We hope to reschedule him later in the semester; look to this blog for more information. Share on FacebookTweet

Someone stole the electronic projector last night from our newly renovated seminar room. Value: $3500. Please let us know if you have any information or saw anything suspicious. This is very disheartening. Share on FacebookTweet