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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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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!
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 [...]
Caballo Chops
(accompanied by guitar)
Caballo sat on the bus near me,
Unmoving and self-contained as a cactus.
His moustache handlebarred over his lips,
His potbelly pigged out over his nickel belt buckle.
Like a Navajo Coyote his heart was hidden deep away
And he breathed in short, phlegmatic gasps—
Still [...]
Swann Li
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In the early morning when Father Fan came home, on his back a bamboo tub of newly dug-up peanuts, muddy and wet, the rain was still falling. Shafts of water were beating on the stone slabs in the yard, splashing up into hundreds of fuzzy dandelion blossoms, wetting the feathers of two black-dotted [...]
On the twenty-third of June, 2009, we met at Newtonville Books for a reading in celebration of issue 69 of AGNI. Editor Sven Birkerts introduced himself with an apology; he’d just returned from a writers’ retreat, where several times daily he was made to stand behind a lectern introducing fresh new voice after fresh new voice. In [...]
It seems to be Rachel DeWoskin Week here at BU Creative Writing. We’ve just learned that her poem, an AAP Contest winner from the year 2000, has been selected to be included in the newest Academy of American Poets Anthology.
As some of you may know Rachel DeWoskin (GRS ‘00 and mentioned in the previous post) spent a large part of her life living in China. She’s just written a piece for NPR, looking back on the Tiananmen Square massacre, and its historical significance. You can read the full text of her article on the NPR website. (Photo [...]
Creative Writing alumna, Rachel DeWoskin (GRS ‘00), will be reading from her new novel Repeat After Me, her fiction debut (her wonderful memoir Foreign Babes in Beijing first appeared in 2005), on June 9th at the BU Barnes & Noble, starting at 7:00 pm, in their 5th floor reading room.
Congratulations, Rachel, and here’s hoping everyone can make [...]
I’ve just found out that several of our students have been published, or will be shortly. Maya Sloan, GRS 2007, has published “Christian Living” in Passages North, and a quick Google search tells me she’s got stories forthcoming in Boulevard and Driftwood. (There may be a book on the horizon as well, but let’s hold [...]
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