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Thu, Sep 7, 2023 4:30pm to 6pm
A poet’s memoir of the journey he undertook as a 9-year-old, an unaccompanied minor, from a tiny village in El Salvador to Arizona. “In the sea of immigration memoirs, this is a good one, written...
Thu, Sep 14, 2023 4:30pm to 6pm
The newest novel by the author of Station Eleven begins in 1912 as a young British immigrant, a so-called “remittance man,” wanders in the woods of western Canada, and undergoes a paranormal...
Thu, Sep 28, 2023 4:30pm to 6pm
Poems about loss, looking back, and what binds us to life by one of the most well-known poets of our era. Stones is an ode to Young’s home places and his dear departed, and to what of them—of...
Thu, Oct 5, 2023 4:30pm to 6pm
A first novel by a neurologist and palliative care physician who also holds an MFA in creative writing, A History of Present Illness is written from the perspective of a doctor who feels...
Thu, Oct 19, 2023 4:30pm to 6pm
Both the environment and liberal society are on their way to collapsing when 20-year-old Lark sets out on an overcrowded yacht full of refugees headed from Maine to Ireland. Climate change has...
Thu, Oct 26, 2023 4:30pm to 6pm
Moustakis’s debut novel opens in 1956, a time when the vast territory of Alaska is ripe for the taking, and it follows the story of a couple who settle on 150 acres there. “Stories of Alaska are...
Thu, Apr 13, 2023 4:15pm to 5:30pm
Armen Davoudian’s poems and translations from Persian appear in Poetry magazine, the Hopkins Review, the Yale Review, and elsewhere. His debut poetry collection, The Palace of Forty Pillars, will...
Tue, Feb 21, 2023 4:15pm to 6pm
Join us for a discussion on "How Literature Plays with the Brain" with Paul Armstrong, professor of English at Brown University. Paul Armstrong, a distinguished scholar of literature, also writes...
Tue, Feb 7, 2023 4:15pm to 6pm
Join us for faculty research: ‘A Fool for Beauty’: Modernism and the Racial Semiotics of Crooning with Michael Coyle, professor of English. The talk’s primary focus is on the one and only record...
Thu, Dec 1, 2022 4:30pm to 6pm
Living Writers presents Jamaica Kincaid, an Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer whose experience as an uprooted subject informs nearly all of her work. The New...
Mon, Nov 28, 2022 7pm
Join us for a faculty roundtable followed by informal conversation about Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place. The session is open to all, but registration is required. The roundtable portion will be...
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Thu, Nov 17, 2022 4:30pm to 6pm
Living Writers presents Jenny Offill. The program is free and open to everyone. The first novel that Jenny Offill wrote, Last Things, was named a New York Times Notable Book and finalist for the...
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