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Emerson College Faculty/Alumni Reading Series: Megan Marshall and Danielle Legros Georges
The Writing, Literature, and Publishing Department of Emerson College is proud to present the first of the 2015-16 Faculty/Alumni Reading Series, beginning with Pulitzer Prize-winner Megan Marshall and Boston Poet Laureate Danielle Legros Georges. Professor Megan Marshall is an award-winning American scholar, writer, and biographer. Her first biography, The Peabody Sisters (2005), won the Massachusetts Book Award in Nonfiction. Her second biography, Margaret Fuller (2013), won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and the Massachusetts Book Award in Nonfiction. Danielle…
Find out more »Emerson College Faculty/Alumni Reading Series: Jon Papernick and Sara Novic
Emerson College professor Jon Papernick and Bachelor of Fine Arts alum Sara Novic read from their new books. There will be a Q&A. Jon Papernick is the author of three works of fiction: The Ascent of Eli Israel, Who by Fire, Who by Blood, There Is No Other, and the recntly released Book of Stone (May 2015). His fiction has appeared in Confrontation, The Reading Room, Night Train Magazine, Exile Quarterly, Nerve, Zeek, and the anthologies Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction…
Find out more »WLP Reading Series: Evie Shockley Q&A
Join us for a Q&A with Evie Shockley. Free and open to the public. RSVPs will close the day before the event. Non-Emerson guests must RSVP to be given security access to the event. Check out Evie Shockley's reading directly after at 6pm: https://evieshockleyreading.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…
Find out more »WLP Faculty/Alumni Series: Kim McLarin & Edwin Hill
Join us for the Faculty/Alumni Series with Kim McLarin and Edwin Hill (MFA '02). Free and open to the public. RSVPs will close the day before the event. Non-Emerson guests must RSVP to be given security access to the event. ---- Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director for Popular Fiction and Publishing Kim McLarin is the author of three critically-acclaimed novels, the memoir Divorce Dog: Men, Motherhood and Midlife, Divorce Dog: A Play, based on the book and of numerous essays and short stories.…
Find out more »WLP Publishing Series: What It’s Really Like to Run a Glossy Magazine
Join us for a presentation with Marie Claire's Editor-in-Chief, Anne Fulenwider. Free and open to the public. RSVPs will close the day before the event. Non-Emerson guests must RSVP to be given security access to the event. --- Anne Fulenwider is the Editor-in-Chief of Marie Claire, a position she has held since September 2012. She appears as a frequent judge on the Emmy-winning TV show Project Runway and the mentor on Project Runway All Stars. Fulenwider launched her career at The Paris Review and spent a decade…
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.