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Wholly Communion film screening and poetry reading: Janaka Stucky
50th anniversary screening and poetry reading by alum Janaka Stucky. Directed by Peter Whitehead, documentary, UK, 33 min, 1965, 35mm. A short film documenting what was referred to as “The International Poetry Incarnation.” It was billed as Great Britain’s first full-scale “happening,” with the world’s leading Beat poets coming together under one roof at the Royal Albert Hall on June 11, 1965, for an evening of near-hallucinatory revelry. It came to be seen as one of the cultural high points…
Find out more »JENNIFER EGAN reading at Emerson College
Critically acclaimed author Jennifer Egan will be reading at Emerson in the Bright Family Screening Room in the Paramount building. Jennifer Egan is the author of A Visit From the Goon Squad, The Keep, Look at Me, The Invisible Circus, and the story collection Emerald City. Her stories have been published in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, GQ, Zoetrope, All-Story, and Ploughshares, and her nonfiction appears frequently in The New York Times Magazine. She lives with her husband and sons…
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.