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Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser by Associate Professor and LTAC Director Susan Bernofsky will be released on May 25, 2021 by Yale University Press.
Columbia University’s Writing Program welcomed author Terese Marie Mailhot to its Nonfiction Dialogues series earlier this month.
Las Biuty Queens, a story collection by Iván Monalisa Ojeda, translated from the Spanish by alumna Hannah Kauders '20, will be released by Astra House on June 1, 2021.
Baruch College recently announced that alumna Daphne Palasi Andreades '19 will serve as its Spring 2021 Sidney Harman Writing Fellow.
Here, we talk with alumna and Assistant Professor of Writing Rivka Galchen '06 about teaching her hybrid seminar last fall, her forthcoming novel Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch, and the fluidity of her writing practice.
Yesterday, the 2021 Guggenheim fellowships were announced, and several Columbia Faculty and Alumni are among the recipients.
In a virtual ceremony last night, PEN America announced the winners of their 2021 Literary Awards, conferring the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction to English and Comparative Literature Professor Saidiya Hartman for her book, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments(W.W. Norton & Company, 2020).
Nonfiction alumna Michele Herman '85 will publish her debut novel,Save the Village, in February, 2022 through Regal House Publishing.
Our Word, a student organization dedicated to enriching the Columbia University School of the Arts and the surrounding literary community with outreach, advocacy, and inclusion of new and old literary voices, recently hosted author and journalist Mariana Enriquez for a reading and evening of conversation.
It Doesn't Have to be This Way, a debut novel by alumnus Alistair Mackay '18, has been picked up by South African publishing house Kwela Books, an imprint of NB Publishers.
Abundance, a debut novel by alumnus Jakob Guanzon '17, was released on March 2, 2021 by Graywolf Press to great critical acclaim.
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