Lindsay Bernal Reads for the Jenny McKean Moore Series September 27

The month long residency of South African writer Nokuthula Mazibuko has come to an end. The Embassy of South Africa hosted a valedictory reception Tuesday evening at the residence of the ambassador, Her Excellence Barbara Masekela. Nokuthula returns to South Africa today. We wish her the best, especially as she looks forward to the birth…

                        The GW English Graduate Student Association                              Symposium 2017:        (re)collections:       Tracing Power & Community in Cultural Memory  Date:  Friday, February 24, 2017 Location:  219 Gelman…

Feel like you have missed all of the famous author readings this semester? Although there are only a few authors visiting GW in the next coming months (Margaret Atwood will be doing a dramatization of her latest novel The Year of the Flood at Lisner Auditorium this Friday, October 30th. Tickets are as low as…

This year’s DC Reads selection is Dinaw Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears.  Join GW English’s Aaron Hamburger in a discussion of the book in relation to Washington, DC (particularly the Logan Circle neighborhood) on November 5 at 7 PM.  The discussion — and samples of Ethiopian food! — will be at the Takoma…

Don’t miss a reading with award-winning writer and filmmaker  David Bezmozgis Marvin Center Amphitheater 7:30pm Tuesday March 19th http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/a68a2684-f1fe-11e1-bba3-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2Np6oFdJg Bezmozgis is the author of the critically acclaimed books  The Free World and Natasha and Other Stories, and is visiting GW as a guest of the Jewish Literature Live program.  Natasha and Other Stories won the Toronto…

In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, JK Rowling describes a statue of the Potter family in Godric’s Hollow’s village square and a memorial sign in front of the house where James and Lily died but never explains where they came from. Listen to a theory about when these memorials were likely to have been…