for students, alumni, and the community
On Tuesday, March 16th, at 7:00 PM, the Creative Writing Program will host the Threepenny Review’s Thirtieth Anniversary Reading, featuring poets Frank Bidart, Louise Glück, Jill McDonough, and Robert Pinsky, introduced by Wendy Lesser, founding editor of the Threepenny Review and author of eight books, most recently Room for Doubt. The five eminent, much-loved, and [...]
For all those in the Boston area: the Creative Writing Program’s faculty will be giving their annual free reading next Tuesday, February 9th, 7:30 PM, at Boston University’s School of Management Auditorium (595 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston). The readers will include: former US Poets Laureate Robert Pinsky and Louise Glück; novelist and Director of the Program, [...]
Ha Jin will be reading this week at area bookstores from his new collection of short stories, “A Good Fall”
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at 7:00 PM – Barnes & Noble @ BU, 660 Beacon Street, Boston MA (Reading Room, 5th Floor)
Wednesday, December 2, at 7:00 PM – Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St. Brookline MA
Thursday, December [...]
Alumnus H.M. Naqvi’s debut novel, Home Boy, has garnered a glowing review in the Times; Joseph Salvatore calls it “smart and sorrowful… a remarkably engaging novel that delights as it disturbs.” You can read the full review here, visit Naqvi’s homepage, or read a little of the book by clicking below.
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BU Alumna, Erin Belieu, along with Cate Marvin are planning a Women in Literary Arts Conference, and there is a considerable amount of excitement about the proposed conference, and I think a lot of our grads, and current students may be interested in attending. It’s likely to be in the Boston area, either in late [...]
We’ve just learned that Ha Jin and BU alumna E.V. Slate have been named winners of the PEN/ O. Henry Prize. Their stories “The House behind a Weeping Cherry” (Ha Jin), and “Purple Bamboo Park” (E.V. Slate) both appear in the forthcoming PEN/ O. Henry Prize Anthology. Congratulations to both!
We’ve just learned that incoming MFA candidate, John Tormey, has published a story in an online journal called Fiction Circus. The story is called “Dashing Through the Snow”. Click on the title to read the story. Hit the jump for some artwork and an audio track of John reading from his piece.
Congratulations, John!
Husain Naqvi’s book, Home Boy, was accepted for publication some time ago. At last we have a little cover art to look at. Even if Amazon isn’t providing us with searchable content within the novel itself just yet, at least we know what to look for when it hits the shelves on the 25th of [...]
Supplement to the Graduate School’s
Guide for the Thesis Writer:
Formatting the Thesis: The Graduate School has provided a detailed and specific guide to assist you in formatting your thesis. Go pick one up at room 112 and study it. You will need to meet with Martha Khan to have your formatting checked and corrected. Before you [...]
Katherine Hollander, GRS ‘06, was named first prize winner of this year’s Schmuel Traum Prize in Literary Translation, for her translations, from the German, of poems by Else Lasker-Schüler. Says Katherine,”I’m happy and humbled, since Traum himself seems to have been an extraordinary person who, like Lasker-Schüler, was a German Jew who loved European languages [...]
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