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On November 18, 2021, Writing Program students interested in the lineup of professors for the Spring semester had the opportunity to get to know incoming Assistant Professor Diksha Basu, as she joined Ravina Aggarwal, Director of Columbia Global Centers | Mumbai for a virtual installment of Indian Stories on the Global Stage. 

Nonfiction alumna Lacy Warner ‘16 recently debuted her first short documentary, A Journey of Sight: The Long Road Toward Curing River Blindness, with Epic Digital and Vox Media.

Art, Friends, and Watches: Gary Shteyngart In Conversation with Fred Savage

Shimmy-Disc/Joyful Noise Recordings released Words & Music, Book One by the label's founder Kramer last week. 

The first comic in the new series Sabretooth by Associate Professor and alumnus Victor LaValle ‘98 will be released by Marvel Comics on January 5, 2022.

Jackson’s multivocal debut poetry collection features a chorus of Black women’s voices throughout time, including Jackson’s great-grandmother, the church ladies of her Philadelphia youth, Missy Elliott, and Black feminist scholar Hortense Spillers.

When it comes to Dante, acclaimed poet and translator Mary Jo Bang ’98 is all about being as vernacular as possible.

Berkley Imprint under Penguin Random House will publish The Paris Bookseller by Kerri Maher ‘04 on January 11, 2022. The book is now available for pre-order.

A debut nonfiction essay collection, The Way You Make Me Feel: Interracial Love in Black and Brown, by Nina Sharma ’16 was recently bought by Juli Kyan at Penguin Press.

It seems that to know Robert Walser is to love him. The great Swiss-German writer who lived, struggled, and worked prolifically in the early 20th century, a contemporary of Kafka and Herman Hesse, has been easily overlooked in the decades since his death, but for a robust and still growing following of Walser enthusiasts.

Our Country Friends by Associate Professor Gary Shteyngart was released by Random House on November 2, 2021.

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From Here to There

by Lisa Cochran

A series in conversation with recent Writing alumni whose books are hitting the shelves, where we reflect on what the writing life looks like on the other side.

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by Carlos Barragán

A series featuring Columbia School of the Arts’ professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making.

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by Jessie Shohfi

A series featuring Columbia writers who began their professional lives on different career paths.