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Had you taken Prof. Carrillo’s class on “Evil,” you, too, could have written about Marilyn Manson.  For this post, I’ll just quote at length from GW student Ali Peters, writing in Monday’s Hatchet: It began with Marilyn Manson. One of my first college assignments was to dissect the lyrics to “The Beautiful People.” For a kid…

ME: So, Mr. Very Famous Author, I hope that you are as excited to come to GW as we are to have you in residence this coming spring. FAMOUS AUTHOR: Indeed I am. ME: It’s a big deal for us, and we’d like to celebrate it. FAMOUS AUTHOR: I see. ME: I’ve been charged with…

We are thrilled to learn that Howard Jacobson, who was in residence at GW last spring through a joint program with the British Council, has won the 2010 Booker Prize. Congratulations to Howard! Share on FacebookTweet

Tom Mallon’s books on display at the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Last week Prof. Thomas Mallon was honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters with its Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award, a $10,000 prize “given annually to single out recent prose that merits recognition for the quality of its style.” Prof….

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. …

The first Wang Visiting Professor in Contemporary English Literature will be Edward P. Jones, an African American author of world fame. A DC resident, Mr. Jones won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2004 for his stunning novel The Known World. Set in rural Virginia before the Civil War, this vividly imagined and beautifully composed…