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If you have never heard Professor Margo Jefferson (JN ‘71) speak aloud—and I would encourage you to try to do so as soon as possible—you should imagine that each word she utters appears in a different font.
Friend of the Pod, a new novella from Associate Professor Sam Lipsyte, is out now from Picture Books, an imprint dedicated to publishing fiction by leading authors alongside contributions by celebrated contemporary artists. The series, conceived by Emma Cline ’13, author of Daddy (Random House, 2020) and The Girls (Random House, 2016), pairs each writer with an artist.
Writing Assistant Professor Lynn Xu will partake in a solo exhibition of her book-length poem And Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of Moonlight at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson.
The Confessions of Matthew Strong, a work of historical fiction by alumnus Ousmane K. Power-Greene ’21, is out next week from Other Press.
Sprinting Through No Man’s Land, the debut work from narrative nonfiction alumnus Adin Dobkin ’20, has been named among the six “coups de cœur” in the run-up to the announcement of the 2022 American Library in Paris Book Award winner.
Associate Professor Shane McCrae’s book Cain Named the Animal (Little Brown, 2022) has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection, one of the most influential awards for new poetry in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Alumni Daphne Palasi Andreades ’19 and Jessamine Chan ’12 are both recognized on the shortlist for the 2022 First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction.
Past Lives is an interview series with School of the Arts Writing faculty, students, and alumni who began their professional lives on different career paths. Here, we talk to Associate Professor, Head of Fiction, and Writing alumna Rivka Galchen '06 about her journey into and out of medicine, kooky scientists, and raising the fictional stakes.
Cocoon (World Editions) by Zhang Yueran and Nine Color Deer (Levine Querido) by Kailin Duan, both translated from the Chinese by Associate Professor Jeremy Tiang, are out this fall.
Alumna Yardenne Greenspan '12 has three new translations out this fall.
Circa, recently published by Mariner Books, is the second novel from alumna Devi S. Laskar ’96.
The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) recently announced the shortlist for their translation awards, which includes members of Columbia’s Writing Faculty and Alumni.
