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Professor Phillip Lopate's latest anthology, The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present, was released on November 17, 2020 by Pantheon Books.
The Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University recently featured Associate Professor Deborah Paredez in its New Books in the Arts & Sciences lecture series.
Nicholas Christopher received his BA from Harvard College. He is the author of seventeen books: six novels, The Soloist, Veronica, A Trip to the Stars, Franklin Flyer, The Bestiary, and Tiger Rag; nine books of poetry, On Tour with Rita, A Short History of the Island of Butterflies, Desperate Characters: A Novella in Verse, In the Year of the Comet, 5° & Other Poems, The Creation of the Night Sky, Atomic Field: Two Poems, Crossing the Equator: New & Selected Poems, 1972-2004, and On Jupiter Place; a nonfiction book, Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir & the American…
Alumnus Chris Vola '10 has published a work of nonfiction, I is for Illuminati, with Morrow Gift through HarperCollins.
Alumna Francesca Giacco ’16 recently sold her debut novel, Six Days in Rome, to Karen Kosztolnyik at Grand Central Publishing at auction. The novel is scheduled for publication in summer 2022.
Alumnus Daniel Penny '16, along with contemporary art advisor Daniel Malarkey, has launched the monthly podcast Art Unscene.
Sprinting Through No Man's Land, a debut narrative nonfiction book by alumnus Adin Dobkin ’20, will be published by Little A in 2021.
Recently The Sewanee Review announced the winners of its annual contest, awarding the prize in Fiction to alumna Becky Shirley '19.
James Cañón was born and raised in Colombia. His debut novel, Tales from the Town of Widows & Chronicles from the Land of Men, has been translated into eleven languages, published in over twenty countries, and was made into a film. It was also selected as one of the “Ten Best Books of the Year” by the American School Library Journal. James has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Prix du Premier Meilleur Roman Étranger, and the Prix des Lecteurs de Vincennes. His short stories and essays have appeared in many literary journals and anthologies in the US, Mexico,…
Alumnus Grant Bergland '15 was recently awarded the Excellence in Filmmaking Award at the 2020 Anthem Film Festival for his short narrative film, Metrics.
Tiny Nightmares, a collection of horror-themed flash fiction stories co-edited by Adjunct Assistant Professor and Alumnus Lincoln Michel '07, was released by Catapult on October 13, 2020.
Alumna Amy Feltman '16 has signed a deal for her second novel, All the Things We Don't Talk About, with Grand Central Publishing. The book is set to release in 2022.
