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.
Archive for the ‘Literature’ Category
Who are America’s best voices?
By Emily HomrokTuesday, 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 [...]
Sam Shepard
By Jordan SchillingMonday, November 23rd, 2009
I wanted to give a quick recommendation to Sam Shepard’s stories in Fall 2009 issue of The Paris Review.
Just take it Bird by Bird
By Emily HomrokTuesday, November 17th, 2009
Anne Lamott, author of novels like Joe Jones (1985, North Point Press) and more recently Blue Shoe (2002, Riverhead Books), is perhaps best known for her fiction. But her greatest contribution to the literary scene may be her 1994 work of nonfiction, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life.
Hailed as “inspirational” and “timeless,” [...]
Paris Review interviews
By Jordan SchillingTuesday, November 17th, 2009
The Paris Review is known for its literary interviews with renown poets and authors. I didn’t realize that they have most (if not all) of their interviews available online for free. This is great resource for students and authors who want to read in-depth literary interviews on their favorite authors/poets. The Paris Review’s interview series [...]
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