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Preview: Graduate Reading Series 3/19

March 15th, 2010 4 Comments

Emersonians! We’re trying to figure out the best way to cover the GRS, so let this post mark the beginning of this endeavor! This Friday the following students will be reading from their recent works: Hairee Lee is finishing out the second year of her MFA in fiction. Of her upcoming work she says, “I’m [...]

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How I Spent My Winter Break “Not Being A Writer”

January 5th, 2010 2 Comments

I’ve heard it said that writers should need to write, and not just want to like any amateur with an idea and a blog. In fact Bukowski has a nice poem espousing that very idea. But here’s the thing: I think that idea is a bunch of crap put forth by pretentious assholes like Bukowski [...]

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Professor Profile: Frederick Reiken

September 18th, 2009 No Comments

Based on my past and current class schedule here at Emerson, you would think I was doomed to take every single class Rick Reiken will ever teach. My first semester, I was dropped (unwillingly, at first) into two of his courses, a lit class and a novel workshop (novels, gag), and had no small amount [...]

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