News
Seven Empty Houses, written by Argentinian author Samanta Schweblin and translated from the Spanish by Assistant Professor Megan McDowell, has been awarded this year’s National Book Award for Translated Literature.
Here, we talk to Fiction student Arya Roshanian about grandiose personalities, humor and tone, and appreciating opera in the 21st century.
La Personalidad de los Pelícanos, a debut work of nonfiction–written in Spanish–from alumna Teresita Goyeneche Perezbardi ’20, is available now from Tusquets Colombia.
Our Country Friends, by Associate Professor Gary Shteyngart, is among the titles shortlisted for this year’s Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction.
Coming next month from Common Consent Press is East Winds, a new memoir by alumna Rachel Rueckert ’21.
The Changing of Keys, a debut novel from alumna Carolyn Jack ’16, is forthcoming from Regal House Publishing in 2024.
Assistant Professor Wes Enzinna has been awarded the prestigious Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant.
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 Adjunct Associate Professor Joshua Furst about his time as an eight-year-old dramaturg, commercial art vs. self-expression, and finding your literary voice.
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.
