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January 2020
Author Event in the English Reading Room: Tea & Conversation with Tobias Wolff
One of America’s preeminent writers, Tobias Wolff is the author of the memoirs This Boy’s Life and In Pharaoh’s Army, the novels The Barracks Thief and Old School, and the short-story collections In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, Back in the World, The Night in Question, and Our Story Begins. His honors include the PEN/Malamud Award, the Rea Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the PEN/Faulkner Award. His work appears regularly in the New Yorker, The…
Read More about Author Event in the English Reading Room: Tea & Conversation with Tobias WolffPoetry at the Hammer: A Reading by Jorie Graham
Jorie Graham has authored numerous poetry collections, one of which won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Her many honors include a MacArthur Fellowship and the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is currently the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University. Readings are organized and hosted by poet, literary critic, and UCLA distinguished professor emeritus Stephen Yenser. Event tickets are free and available at…
Read More about Poetry at the Hammer: A Reading by Jorie GrahamCultural Evolution & Its Discontents: A Book Talk
People worry that computers, robots, interstellar aliens, or Satan himself – brilliant, stealthy, ruthless creatures – may seize control of our world and destroy what’s uniquely valuable about the human race. Cultural Evolution and its Discontents shows that our cultural systems – especially those whose last names are "ism" – are already doing that, and doing it so adeptly that we seldom even notice. Like other parasites, they’ve blindly evolved to exploit us for their own survival. Creative arts and humanistic scholarship…
Read More about Cultural Evolution & Its Discontents: A Book TalkFebruary 2020
Poetry at the Hammer: A Reading by Joy Harjo
Joy Harjo, the first Native American to be Poet Laureate, has published nine books. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the PEN America Literary Award for creative nonfiction, the American Book Award, the Ruth Lilly Prize from the Poetry Foundation for lifetime achievement, and the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. Harjo also performs on the saxophone internationally, solo and with her band, the Arrow Dynamics. Organized and hosted by poet, literary critic, and UCLA…
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