The Jewish Literature Live Spring Line-Up is HERE! And you won’t want to miss a single author! The first reading with Dara Horn will be Thursday night! Dara Horn Dara Horn- A Guide for the Perplexed Jan. 30 in Marvin Center 311 at 7:00PM Anouk Markovitz– I am Forbidden Feb. 13 in the Marvin Center…
Lisa Page Our own Lisa Page will be sitting down and interviewing Molly McCloskey, George Washington’s Jenny McKean Moore Writer-In-Residence, this Wednesday (January 27th) at 7pm at the Hill Center. The event is free and certainly not to be missed! Molly McClosky McCloskey is well known on GW’s campus for her popular creative non-fiction class,…
George Pelecanos Reading Thursday, January 23rd in Marvin Center 301 at 7:30pm http://diariodellafenice.blogspot.com/2011/09/in-libreria-george-pelecanos-il.html A Washington native, Pelecanos worked many odds and ends jobs before publishing his first crime novel, A Firing Offense, in 1992. His novels plunge readers into the gritty world of murder and drugs that he constructs from personal observation and research. In a conversation Pelecanos explained, “My…
Some of the students in English 3980 on a rainy day in Prague Students in Professor Robert McRuer’s English 3980, “Transnational Film Studies and LGBTQ Cultures,” had the opportunity this semester to participate in one of the department’s most unique offerings. The course was taught all semester here at GW while another version of it…
Don’t miss the next event in our Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series: Kiese Laymon who will present this Thursday, at 7:30 PM, in the Marvin Center Amphitheater. Laymon is the author of the novel, Long Division, and a collection of essays entitled, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America. He is Associate Professor of…
Former GW English Creative Writing Professor Jody Bolz has a new book of poetry out and will be reading at Politics & Prose on Sunday, January 12th, at 1:00. Shadow Play will be published by Turning Point Books in mid-December: Shadow Play, a novella in verse by Jody Bolz Hypnotic and provocative by turns, Shadow Play retraces a journey across Asia in…
The East Asian Humanities Lecture Series Hosts Andy Chih-Ming Wang November 15th at 12:30 in the Lindner Family Commons (1957 E St NW, Rm 602) Author Andy Chih-Ming Wang Wang is the author of the groundbreaking work Transpacific Articulations: Student Migration and the Remaking of Asian America. In his first book,Wang explores the impact of study abroad for Chinese…
Join GW English and Creative Writing next Thursday at 7:30 PM for a reading by Assistant Professor Jennifer Chang. Professor Chang joined our faculty this year and teaches poetry in the Creative Writing Program. Check out our interview with her from last May here. And see you at the Honors Townhouse next week!
The Hyman S. and Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival begins this Sunday and GW English is pleased to note that our alum David Bruce Smith (BA, 1979) is on the “Local Author Fair” roster for his new book American Hero: John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States. John Marshall was the fourth Chief Justice…
Publishing Gone APE: What Can Publishers Learn from Self Publishing hosted by Washington Book Publishers Wednesday, September 25th at 6pm The best part of this event? It’s right on campus! The event will be held in Funger Hall room 108 http://socialmediacommunications.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/post-Ape.jpg Co-author Shawn Welch http://files.guykawasaki.com/images/headshots /full/shawn-welch.png Shawn Welch, co-author of APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur- How to…
