Spring courses on Screenwriting and Fiction

You may have heard that we have decided to celebrate the successful residency of Edward P. Jones in GW’s English Department with neither a bang nor whisper, but with what might be called a whispered bang. Admittedly that does not sound right. So let’s just say that we are holding an event that does not…

by J J Cohen So you may have heard that the DC area has gone a bit overboard in prepping for the Inauguration and its attendant hoopla. All bridges to Virginia, for example, will be closed — apparently to prevent Karl Rove from leaving his home in Arlington and mingling with the multitudes. I am…

Definitions of “dog days” differ from source to source. In common parlance, “dog days” refers to the sultry days of late summer, when the dog star, Sirius, rises along with the sun. The online etymology dictionary notes that in Europe, the period between July 3 and August 11 traditionally has been thought of as “the…

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

I received the following letter from an undergraduate English major, and share it with you because I do not have the funds in my budget to assist. I place the request on this blog in the hope that one of our readers might be interested in supporting these students. Please contact me directly (jjcohen[at]gwu.edu) if…

I graduated GW University in May of 2007. During that period in which most of the seniors (including myself) were thinking, “What am I going to do now?” I began to look into going to Chile to teach English. I had studied in Santiago, Chile for a semester my junior year, and had friends there…