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Beaudelaine Pierre visits Drexel 2/24

By Jordan Schilling
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Haitian author and editor, Beaudelaine Peierre is visiting Drexel today. The reception will start at 3:00pm followed by a reading at 3:30 in Stein Auditorium, Nesbitt, 33rd and Market Street.


1984 Performed by Sock Puppets

By Michael Filippone
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

Click here to watch and read the story behind a video of George Orwell’s 1984 performed by sock puppets:
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/16/orwells-nineteen-eig.html


Who are America’s best voices?

By Emily Homrok
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Doors part with a hydraulic hiss. Steam billows. Behold! The emerging voices of the nation have arrived… from the future.
Author Dani Shapiro, perhaps best known for the best-selling Slow Motion, her memoir of decadence and death, sits in as editor in the tenth entry in the Best New American Voices series: the 2010 edition.
How I [...]


Braverman lives up to her name

By Emily Homrok
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

As a writer, there are a few tiers you may find yourself falling onto. Being a non-confrontational sort of person (oh, those Pisces — just so sensitive, you know?) I’ll refrain from ranking said tiers, but I will do the bare minimum and differentiate.
There are two types of Household Names. Strain A of Household Names [...]


Brian Evenson

By Jordan Schilling
Monday, November 9th, 2009

I wanted to take a minute to recommend Brian Evenson.  I’ve come to admire his writing because Evenson’s fiction is stripped of excessive narration. Evenson leaves out description of physical appearances of characters and settings of his stories. Evenson focuses on exploring how setting can effect the moral decisions that his characters make. Evenson was [...]


All-day writing workshop to be held at Rosemont College

By Emily Homrok
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

Okay, you’ve done the hardest part already: you’ve gotten over your white elephant, conquered writer’s block, and finished a manuscript!
…Now what?
On October 17, 2009, Rosemont College (located in Rosemont, PA, at 1400 Montgomery Avenue) is hosting an all-day writer’s workshop. For a fee of $75 — okay, maybe not a drop in the bucket for [...]