from Sunday’s Book Review: Thomas Mallon began contributing to the Book Review 25 years ago, just after the publication of “A Book of One’s Own: People and Their Diaries.” Since then, he’s written four other nonfiction books and seven novels, and taken detours into academia, magazine editing and even government bureaucracy (as deputy chairman of…
We will be offering a one credit, four evening course with our GW-British Council Writer in Residence Suhayl Saadi. You will have the chance to read three of his favorite novels and discuss them with him: Monsieur Shoushana’s Lemon Trees by Patricia Duncker; How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman; and This Other…
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Attendees at this year’s Mezipatra (which means “mezzanine” in Czech).Can you find any of the GWU students? Once again this year, GWU students had the unique opportunity to join Prof. Robert McRuer in attending Mezipatra, the Czech Queer Film Festival The students in the class will be presenting their work at a one-day symposium Saturday,…
Prof. Schreiber toasts Toni Morrison (seated, at left) at her birthday celebration at the Library of Congress last week. This guest post is from Prof. Evelyn Schreiber. On Feb. 18, Profs. Evelyn Schreiber, Jennifer James, and H.C. Carrillo attended the 80th Birthday Reception for Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison at the Madison Hall of…
Novelist Nadia Kalman reads Thursday at 7 p.m. Nadia Kalman, an immigrant from the former Soviet Union, currently works with Teachers & Writers Collaborative in New York City. Her first novel, The Cosmopolitans, won the Emerging Writer Award from Moment magazine and was a finalist for the Rohr Prize in Jewish Literature. Kalman also received a 2012…
