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Check this out. Don’t miss the streaming video, with its Renaissance-y soundtrack. It’s quite excellent. An excerpt from the article: During weekly, three-hour classes, students study with a Folger scholar to learn how early books were made, the role they played in shaping culture, and how the medium of print and its reproduction shape a…
Mention the Pulitzer Prize, and you’ll conjure images of a weathered novelist, scowling over the rim of his snifter. If the Pulitzer laureates at GW are any indication, however, a comic book sketch is a more accurate image. In the span of two weeks, the GW English Department has hosted Michael Chabon and Art Spiegelman,…
1. Go to this film, and thereby support GW English alumnus Jason Filardi. 2. Enjoy with some popcorn. 3. Tell your professor on Monday that the reason you didn’t get all your reading done is that the department chair commanded you to see an enjoyable film with popcorn on the side, and can you please…
Here’s a suggestion. Here’s another. And another. And then you can have these books signed by MICHAEL CHABON himself on Monday, March 23 at 7 PM in the Jack Morton Auditorium. Chabon will be introduced by Edward P. Jones, will read from his work, and will be interviewed live by Faye Moskowitz. Book signing follows….
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English major Joe Mancinik with Prof. Toni Morrison Prior to her appearance at Lisner Auditorium Wednesday night, our English Department blogger Joe Mancinik, along with a few other lucky English majors, sat down for a dinner and conversation with legendary writer, teacher, and intellectual Toni Morrison. This piece is about the experience. She speaks softly,…
