Category Archives: Creative Non-Fiction
Edmund White 02/01/10
Report by Katie McGinnis: When contrasted against the commanding power of his work, Edmund White is surprisingly genial in person. Students, faculty and community members were treated to his reading on February 1st in the LBC’s Kendall Cram Room. White … Continue reading
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Dan Baum 10/14/09: Finding the Right Word
Report by Betsy Porritt: Dan Baum cuts an interesting figure in a straw boater, sleeveless shirt and baggy, fuchsia pink trousers. When he talks, it is with the confidence of a New Yorker reporter with hand gestures to match. He … Continue reading
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Personal Essay Symposium 10/03/09: Jonathan Ames
Report by Faine Greenwood: I never thought I would see a man discussing, ahem, evacuating his bowels in the South of France at an officially Tulane sponsored event. Yet I have: I have seen Jonathan Ames. Ames, a NYC-based personal … Continue reading
Personal Essay Symposium 10/03/09: Chris Rose
Report by Sarah Manthey: Chris Rose, local newspaperman turned spokesperson for post-Katrina New Orleans, half-read half-performed works from his book 1 Dead in Attic as the third contributor in the symposium on the personal essay. His book is a compilation … Continue reading
Personal Essay Symposium 10/03/09: Phillip Lopate
Report by Faine Greenwood: Phillip Lopate has been a particular delight for me to discover. I’ve got my reasons: I have often been critiqued in the past for providing too much background information in my essays: it is the fetish … Continue reading
Personal Essay Symposium 10/03/09: Meghan Daum
Report by Sara Tobin: Writer Meghan Daum opened the “Less-Than-Secret Lives” symposium on the personal essay Saturday Oct. 3 with a reading from her most recent work, Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House. The book is … Continue reading
