What? School? 1. If you’re looking for the WLP department’s website, look here instead. While you’re there, watch Steve Yarbrough in a short interview. He’s the acting department chair. 2. Orientation schedule! (You’ll get a more detailed one tomorrow.) 3. Those of you interested in applying for a Fulbright, contact GradStudies@emerson.edu and attend the workshop [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Events'
Booksmith Sets Bait, Hunkers in Bushes
August 2nd, 2010 No Comments
Brookline Booksmith‘s “Super September” lineup consists of Gary Shteyngart (9/15, Super Sad True Love Story), Per Petterson (9/16, no idea…maybe I Curse the River of Time?), William Gibson (9/22, Zero History), and Michele Norris (9/23, The Grace of Silence). The readings are at Coolidge Theater across Harvard Street, so you have to pay $5 to [...]
Tags: Brookline Booksmith · Coolidge Theater · Gary Shteyngart · Michele Norris · Per Petterson · William Gibson
The Drum calling for submissions
July 22nd, 2010 No Comments
Guidelines. From the FAQ: –Will I be able to create another recording of this piece for another website, podcast, or other form of distribution? Absolutely. You’ll retain all rights to your work except the rights to the particular recording of it that will appear in The Drum. –Will I be able to publish my piece [...]
Tags: literary magazines · The Drum
July 22nd, 2010 No Comments
Quick heads-up: Tonight at 7, Richard Russo will read his nonfiction piece from Granta 111 at Porter Square Books. Incidentally, Granta has posted a link to a Bruce Chatwin story from their first travel writing issue (#10, Winter 1983) on their homepage.
Tags: Granta · Porter Square Books · Richard Russo
David Markson, 1927-2010
June 7th, 2010 No Comments
Although what I have basically been doing about the rain is ignoring it, to tell the truth. How I do that is by walking in it. I did not fail to notice that those last two sentences must certainly look like a contradiction, by the way. Even if they are no such thing. One can [...]
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Sebastian Junger at Harvard Book Store June 7
June 4th, 2010 1 Comment
This is late notice, but worth mentioning. Sebastian Junger will be at Harvard Bookstore Monday, June 7 at 6pm, to talk about his new book War and, presumably, a documentary he made with Tim Hetherington called Restrepo (which won the Grand Jury Prize for documentaries at Sundance Film Festival 2010). Both works grew out of [...]
Tags: David Langness · harvard book store · Korangal · Paste · Restrepo · Sebastian Junger · Telegraph · Tim Hetherington · Vanity Fair · Vietnam · war
Hard Rock Redivider 7.2 Launch Party on 30 May
May 26th, 2010 No Comments
Sunday, 30 May 7-11pm Hard Rock Cafe 22-24 Clinton St (Faneuil Hall) To celebrate the launch of issue 7.2, Redivider will be hosting readings by past contributors Steve Almond and Ben Stein and the Hard Rock Cafe in Boston. The Ross Livermore Band will play after the readings, and we will have crazy fun things [...]
Tags: ben stein · redivider · ross livermore band · Steve Almond
Coffee Monday Coffee-Morning Coffee
May 10th, 2010 No Comments
For those of you who have jobs, here are reasons to use Incognito this morning beyond “planning surprises like gifts or birthdays.” Levi Asher takes a bite out of Harold Bloom, among others, and finds plenty to chew: Harold Bloom, once a fierce and self-critical thinker, is now suggesting that the world must support Israel [...]
Tags: Alums · Cam Terwillinger · Francis Fukuyama · Gigantic Sequins · Harold Bloom · Kimberly Ann Southwick · Levi Asher · literary journals · New York Times · Nietzsche · submissions · summer courses
Creative Nonfiction Calls for Blog-Lit Submissions
April 22nd, 2010 No Comments
The Context From a piece on the NYT’s Paper Cuts blog: True to the form, [Nobel laureate José Saramago's blog] posts are mini-essays, many of them shorter than a newspaper column, in which he tackles subjects from politics (“George Bush expelled truth from the world, establishing the age of lies that now flourishes in its [...]
Tags: blogs · Creative Nonfition · New York Times · Paper Cuts · submissions
Ploughshares and Emerson Host Guest Editor Elizabeth Strout Reading,
Thursday 15 April
April 12th, 2010 No Comments
2009 Pulitzer-winner (for Olive Kitteridge) Elizabeth Strout has guest edited the Spring 2010 issue (No.111) of Ploughshares, choosing Richard Bausch, Joyce Carol Oates, Michael Collier, and Linda Pastan, among many others. If you didn’t pick up a copy in Denver, then buy one online, or come to the reading. (Do that last one regardless.)
Tags: Elizabeth Strout · Paramount Theatre · ploughshares