Summer Reading: Earth

Eva Hansen reflects on her time with the GW English Department The Practicality of Impracticality; Or, Why Being an English Major  Was the Best Decision I Made in My Undergrad Career Eva Hansen          “Oh… what do you plan to do with that?” This question, along with the skeptical intonation, is one…

One Art The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn’t hard to master. Then practice losing farther, losing…

As a little girl, the first poems I heard were from the fresh pages of the Shel Silverstein book Every Thing on It that my mom read to me by my bedside. What kept me reading Silverstein’s poems long after I could read them myself was that, beneath their kid-friendly language, poems like “Masks” speak…

Soon the City Soon the summer Now the pleasant purgatory Of spring is over, Soon the choking Humidity In the city On the fire escapes In a sleeveless T-shirt Smoking a cigar In tune with the tremor Of the mindless yellow Commercial traffic Moving in the city, Where no one really Buys a car, American…

What do you think of when you hear the name, Michael Chabon? Comic books? Coming of age? Judaism? Pittsburgh? Movie adaptations? Chances are marijuana was probably not on that list. So when the lights dimmed in Lisner Auditorium this past Friday night and Chabon cracked the spine of his new collection of nonfiction essays, Manhood…

  Toni Morrison at GWU, September 21, 2011 Nobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize Winner Toni Morrison died August 5 at the age of 88.  Professor Evelyn Schreiber, a specialist in Morrison’s work and former president of the Toni Morrison Society, was interviewed On August 8 on the Kojo Nnamdi show about Morrison’s legacy.  You can…