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Living Writers presents: Javier Zamora, author of Solito

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...

Persson Auditorium, 27

Living Writers presents: Emily St. John Mandel, author of The Sea of Tranquility

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...

Persson Hall, 27

Living Writers presents: Kevin Young, author of Stones

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...

Persson Hall, 27

Living Writers presents: Anna DeForest, author of A History of Present Illness

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...

Persson Hall, 27

Living Writers presents: Silas House, author of Lark Ascending

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...

Persson Hall, 27

Living Writers presents: Melinda Moustakis, author of Homestead

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...

Persson Hall, 27

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Readings by Olive B. O'Connor Fellows: Armen Davoudian & Pallavi Wakharkar

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...

Lawrence Hall, 105 (Ho Lecture Room)

How Literature Plays with the Brain

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...

Lawrence Hall, The Robert Ho Lecture Room, 105

‘A Fool for Beauty’: Modernism and the Racial Semiotics of Crooning

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...

Lawrence Hall, The Robert Ho Lecture Room, 105

Living Writers: Jamaica Kincaid

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...

Persson Hall, 27 Auditorium

Living Writers virtual book discussion: Jamaica Kincaid's A SMALL PLACE

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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Living Writers: Jenny Offill

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...

Persson Hall, 27 Auditorium

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