Category Archives: Visiting writers
Jonathan Franzen: March 5, 2012
Report by Engram Wilkinson: Audience members filed into McAlister Auditorium Monday night–most clutching copies of The Corrections or Freedom–eager for Tulane University’s sixth reading in its Great Writer Series. Franzen joins the league of Toni Morrison, Salmon Rushdie, Joan Didion, Carlos Fuentes and … Continue reading
Amy Hempel: March 15, 2010
Report by Sara Sands: With her long, white hair framing her face, she looked exactly like the photo on the cover of The Collected Stories. But her voice – serious but playful, frank but inviting – spoke to Amy Hempel’s … Continue reading
Filed under Events, Fiction, Visiting writers
Poet Laureate Series: Rita Dove, 3/8/10
Report by Nicola Wolf In a much-anticipated public appearance at Tulane’s McAlister Auditorium on March 8, former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove read thirteen poems from her latest book Sonata Mulattica, a book she said she hadn’t expected to write. … Continue reading
Filed under Creative Writing Fund, Events, Poetry, Visiting writers
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
Filed under Creative Non-Fiction, Events, Visiting writers
Peter Bogdanovich class visit 01/27/10
Report by Marissa Blake: You don’t have to read about Peter Bogdanovich’s many accomplishments – both in front of and behind the camera – to understand that he is an entertainer. You only have to listen to him for a … Continue reading
Filed under Creative Writing Fund, Events, Screenwriting, Visiting writers
C.D. Wright: 11/09/09
Report by Nicola W. C.D. Wright recently spent an hour with Professor Cooley’s Advanced Poetry Writing Workshop. While her work can be mysterious and surreal, Ms. Wright is herself plainspoken and unassuming and was generously forthright in her answers to … Continue reading
Filed under Poetry, Visiting writers
Deborah Eisenberg 11/04/09: An evening with a genius
Report by Jenny Douglass: Until this past Wednesday, when I thought of Deborah Eisenberg I pictured the photo on the back of Twilight of the Superheroes: a woman with rigid facial features looking at something unseen by the camera, her … 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
Filed under Creative Non-Fiction, Events, Visiting writers
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
