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By Eve Glasberg
December 02, 2022
Nights of Plague was well underway when COVID struck, but the pandemic influenced the book all the same.
Here, we talk with Assistant Professor of Writing Matthew Salesses about writing myths, how to properly conduct a workshop and why successful writers are never the most talented.
Two projects from Columbia filmmakers took home prizes at the 2022 Gotham Awards.
Dog on Fire, the nineteenth book (and seventh novel) by Terese Svoboda ’78 will be released in early 2023 from Flyover Fiction, University of Nebraska Press.
No One Left to Come Looking for You, the latest novel from Associate Professor Sam Lipsyte, will be released early next month by Simon & Schuster.
Essays, edited by Associate Professor and Head of Poetry Dorothea Lasky, will be released by Essay Press.
“My Gentile Region,” an essay by Associate Professor Gary Shteyngart, has been included in this year’s Best American Essays collection.
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.
