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Nonfiction News
Nonfiction alumna Michele Herman '85 will publish her debut novel,Save the Village, in February, 2022 through Regal House Publishing.
HBO recently named alumnus Brysen Boyd '20 their first ever Writing Fellow to work directly on a show in progress.
Nonfiction Alumna Kao Kalia Yang '05 recently published two books, Somewhere in the Unknown World (Metropolitan, 2020)—a collective refugee memoir—and The Most Beautiful Thing (Carolrhoda Books, 2020)—a picture book based on Yang's own experience as a young Hmong refugee.
Dutch Kills Press recently released 2020: Good Writing from a Bad Year, an e-book anthology edited by alumnus Gordon Haber '02.
Alumnus Daniel Felsenthal '15 has been awarded a Fellowship Grant from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture to support his research for an essay on W.G. Sebald's novel Austerlitz.
The National Arts Club hosted an evening with Writing Professor Phillip Lopate ’64 (CC), accompanied by Vivian Gornick and Wayne Koestenbaum to discuss Lopate’s latest anthology, The Glorious American Essay.
NPR's Book Concierge recently released its list of best books of 2020, naming several titles by School of the Arts alumni and faculty among them.
Boyz n the Void: a mixtape to my brother by alumnus G'Ra Asim '18 is scheduled to be released by Beacon Press on May 11, 2021 and is now available for preorder.
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.
Alumnus Chris Vola '10 has published a work of nonfiction, I is for Illuminati, with Morrow Gift through HarperCollins.
Sprinting Through No Man's Land, a debut narrative nonfiction book by alumnus Adin Dobkin ’20, will be published by Little A in 2021.
Columbia University’s Writing Program welcomed Maggie Nelson to its Nonfiction Dialogues series last month.