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TRACY K. SMITH Reading at Emerson
The Emerson College WLP Reading Series is pleased to present a Q&A and reading with TRACY K. SMITH, author of four acclaimed books: The Body's Question (2003), which won the Cave Canem prize for the best first book by an African-American poet; Duende (2007), winner of the James Laughlin Award and the Essense Literary Award; Life on Mars (2011), which won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; and the National Book Award nominated memoir, Ordinary Light (2015). You can listen to an interview with TRACY K. SMITH on Studio 360…
Find out more »Gayly Forward: The Future of LGBT Publishing
Join writers ALEXANDER CHEE, STACEY D'ERASMO, WILLIAM JOHNSON, BRYAN LOWDER, and (moderator) BENOIT DENIZET-LEWIS for a discussion about the future of LGBT stories, writing, journalism, and publishing hosted by the Emerson Publishing Program. This event is free and open to the public.
Find out more »Emerson’s Publishing Series: How To Get An Agent & How to Be One
Emerson's Public Program is pleased to host "Agents of Change: How to Get an Agent & How to Be One" at the Bill Bordy Theater. Panelist for this event: TODD SHUSTER is a managing partner of Aevitas Creative Management, where he represents both fiction and nonfiction, with a focus on current affairs, politics, health, history, and civil rights. He’s helped shepherd a number of books to the big screen, including Wild and Black Mass. REBECCA PODOS represents Young Adult and…
Find out more »Emerson’s WLP Reading Series: AMY HEMPEL: CANCELLED
Emerson college's Writing Literature and Publishing (WLP) program is pleased to welcome short story writer AMY HEMPEL for a reading from her work. AMY HEMPEL is the author of four collections of stories. Collected Stories was named one of the New York Times's Ten Best Books of the Year, won the Ambassador Award, and the Harold Vursell Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, an inaugural United States Artists Foundation Fellowship, the PEN/Malamud Award,…
Find out more »Memoirist MARY KARR at Emerson
Emerson's WLP Reading Series is pleased to present a Q&A and reading with MARY KARR. MARY KARR is an award-winning poet and New York Times best-selling memoirist, and the Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University. She is the author of the critically-acclaimed, best-selling memoirs The Liars’ Club, Cherry, and Lit. Her latest books are The Art of Memoir, a master class on the fastest-growing literary genre which debuted at #3 on the New York Times Bestseller List…
Find out more »WLP Pub Series: How to Get a (Cool) Job: Recent Alumni on Finding Success
Faye Brennan (BA ‘09) is Sex and Relationships Director at Cosmopolitan. James Emmerman (BA ’14) is Associate Photo Editor at Document Journal and formerly an Assistant Photo Editor at Vanity Fair. Jaweed Kaleem (BA ’07) is the national race and justice correspondent at the Los Angeles Times. Anjali Pala (MA ’10) is Senior Designer and Production Manager at Prestel Publishing. Rose Pleuler (BA ‘13) is an Assistant Editor at HarperCollins Children’s Books.
Find out more »WLP Reading Series: Evie Shockley Reading
Join us for a reading from Evie Shockley. Free and open to the public. Check out the Q&A with Evie Shockley right before this event at 4pm: https://evieshockleyqanda.eventbrite.com ---- Evie Shockley is the author of semiautomatic (2017), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the LA Times Book Prize. She has published four other collections of poetry—including the new black (2011), which won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award—and a critical study, Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry (2011). Her honors include the 2015 Stephen…
Find out more »Gary Grossman Reading, Q&A and Signing
Join us for a reading, Q&A and book signing with Gary Grossman. Free and open to the public. Gary Grossman is a multiple Emmy Award winning television producer and author of the bestselling international political thrillers Executive Actions, Executive Treason, Executive Command, Executive Force, and Old Earth. He has also written two highly regarded non-fiction books on TV history. Grossman has been published by Dell/Delacorte, Byron Preiss Publishing, Diversion Books, Harlequin, Arlington House, and CBS/Popular Library. He has produced for NBC News, served…
Find out more »WLP Reading Series: Back to the Afrofuture Live!
Join us for a reading and screening with Ytasha Womack. Free and open to the public. Ytasha L. Womack is an award-winning producer, director, author, and innovator. She is the author of the critically acclaimed books Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci Fi & Fantasy Culture, Rayla 2212, Post Black: How a New Generation is Redefining African American Identity; and co-edited Beats Rhymes and Life: What We Love and Hate About Hip Hop. Afrofuturism is a 2014 Locus Awards Nonfiction Finalist, and Post Black was hailed as a Booklist…
Find out more »Emerson College WLP Reading Series, David Mura Reading at the Bill Bordy Theatre
If you are a non-Emerson guest, please RSVP for this reading event at Eventbrite. A Stranger's Journey: Race and Identity in Poetry and Prose by David Mura David Mura is a poet, memoirist, novelist, and literary critic. His latest book is A Stranger’s Journey: Race, Identity & Narrative Craft in Writing. He’s written two memoirs: Turning Japanese (a New York Times Notable Book; Josephine Miles Oakland PEN Award) and Where the Body Meets Memory. His four books of poetry: After We Lost Our Way (National Poetry…
Find out more »Emerson College WLP Publishing Series, Writing About Other People at the Bill Bordy Theatre
Emerson College WLP presents "Writing About Other People: Biographers and Profile Writers Tell All," featuring Jazmine Hughes, Lance Richardson, Deborah Solomon, and Louisa Thomas. Friend WLP Town Crier on Facebook to watch the FB Live video and see photos of the event. Jazmine Hughes is a Story Editor at the New York Times Magazine. Her work has also appeared in New York and The New Yorker. Deborah Solomon has written several books, including “American Mirror: The Life and Art of…
Find out more »Did You Know?
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.