If you were paying close attention during Michael Chabon’s public reading last month, you would have caught a reference to Edgar Rice Burroughs’ novel The Gods of Mars in the second story he read, “First First Father.” In the story, Chabon compared his experience to the unknowability of a nine color spectrum, which is experienced…
This creative nonfiction piece comes from senior Matthew Lukach, a student in Prof. Lisa Page’s 182 Special Topics class. Thanks, Nigga In high school I worked one night a week—Saturday—bussing tables at a small diner-type place on Broadway and Twenty First Ave. in Nashville, Tennessee called Noshville. The place posed as a New York Jewish…
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This just in from Joseph Fisher, who earned his Ph.D. in English in May 2007: Since earning his degree, Joe writes, he has been “purchasing music in massive quantities—something I had to curtail during my years in graduate school. I have also used the very modest amount of spare time I have been granted since…
The English Department is very happy to welcome three new writers to the ranks of our Creative Writing faculty. All will be joining us this semester to teach our popular ENGL 1210 (formerly ENGL 81), Introduction to Creative Writing. LOUIS BAYARD is a graduate of Princeton and Northwestern universities. His novels include The Pale Blue…
Prose writer Sana Krasikov. Photo by Staci Schwartz. Prizewinning prose writer SanaKrasikov will read on Thursday night at 7 in the Marvin Center Amphitheater (3rd floor), concluding this year’s amazing Jewish Literature Live series curated by Prof. Faye Moskowtiz. Krasikov, a Russian emigre, is author of the collection of short stories, One More Year. …
