Just this past week my fellow Emerson graduate students and I received our thesis chair and reader assignments, marking the start of our final push toward MFA-dom. I was nervous when I found out (via Facebook) that the announcements were in, and wondered if I would get my first choice. You see, I’d selected our [...]
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The Beginning of the End
March 21st, 2010 No Comments
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October 15 events
October 12th, 2009 No Comments
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An Evening With Postsecret’s Frank Warren
Please join us as welcome Frank Warren as he discusses the Postsecret phenomona and signs copies of his newest book, Postsecret: Confessions on Life, Death and God.
Time: 7 pm
Location: Boston University Law Auditorium
Charles London, Far from Zion
Award-winning journalist Charles London [...]
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Pablo Medina and Steve Yarbrough
October 4th, 2009 No Comments
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The Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College invites you to an evening with Emerson Faculty.
Pablo Medina (The Cigar Roller; Points of Balance / Puntos de Apoyo) and Steve Yarbrough (The End of California; Prisoners of War) will read from their work at the Barnes & [...]
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Professor Profile: Doug Whynott
September 19th, 2009 No Comments
Here is Doug Whynott in twelve parts:
1) You know how you read those author biographies of writers who have done all sorts of bizarre jobs before breaking into writing? Doug Whynott is one of those writers. Bee inspector. Dolphin trainer. Piano tuner. And, oh yes, nonfiction professor.
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Professor Profile: Jessica Treadway
September 16th, 2009 1 Comment
If the Emerson WLP department were inclined to grant a Miss Congeniality award, Jessica Treadway would be a shoo-in. Always a cheerful face on the 12th floor, Jessica can be counted on for a friendly smile and encouraging word. (Not to suggest that the rest of the professors are reclusive ogres, per se, [...]
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Professor Profile: Jeff Seglin
September 12th, 2009 No Comments
Let’s just be honest here: it takes a lot to get me off my ass. I’m not lazy, per se, just not an “above and beyond” kind of girl. (Feel free to disagree here.) But when I finished Jeff Seglin’s column writing class and had already published two small pieces, I began to suspect subliminal [...]
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Professor Profile: Robert Dulgarian
September 11th, 2009 No Comments
My dirty little secret as an Emerson grad student is that once, many years ago, before I’d cultivated the maturity and thoughtfulness with which I am now clearly brimming… I was an Emerson undergrad. Only for two years, and then I transferred out to finish my BA elsewhere, and I swear I never smoked a [...]
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Spotlight On… Ladette Randolph
May 13th, 2009 No Comments
Ladette Randolph is the author of the recently published novel A Sandhills Ballad; the award-winning short story collection, This Is Not The Tropics, and two anthologies: The Big Empty and A Different Plain. The editor-in-chief of Ploughshares literary magazine, she is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe award, a Pushcart prize, a Virginia Faulkner Award, [...]
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Tonight, Tonight: Emerson Faculty Reading
April 15th, 2009 No Comments
What homework?? Close those books; it’s the second sunny day in a row, and time to celebrate spring! Tonight, come see two of Emerson College’s fabulous writing and literature professors read from their own work! As a confirmed Megan Marshall-phile, I know will definitely be there to see one of my nonfiction writing role models. [...]
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Rainy days and poetry: Gail Mazur reading from her new work
April 2nd, 2009 No Comments
Avoid a case of the Mondays and come hang out this coming Monday in Cambridge at the Radcliffe Gym. No, there’s no exercise involved. Just a lovely springtime afternoon and new poetry from Gail Mazur. But better wear your rain boots, just in case.
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