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When fictional children become stranger things
Tue, 18 Apr 2023
Teaching an undergraduate class on ‘dangerous’ children in literature inspired English professor Kenneth Gross’s latest book.
Continue ReadingQuestions of character and motives drive professor’s new novel
Mon, 03 Apr 2023
In Stephen Schottenfeld’s This Room Is Made of Noise, a down-on-his-luck handyman befriends an elderly widow of means. What’s a reader to think?
Continue ReadingPlutzik Reading Series opens 60th anniversary season with Jericho Brown
Wed, 31 Aug 2022
The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet will give a reading as part of the University of Rochester’s 202–23 Hyam Plutzik Memorial Reading Series—one of the nation’s oldest literary reading series.
Continue ReadingJames Longenbach ‘made a central and rich place for poetry’ at Rochester
Tue, 16 Aug 2022
The English professor and acclaimed poet devoted his life’s work to studying, teaching, and writing poetry.
Continue ReadingIs this the year you’re going to read Ulysses by James Joyce?
Mon, 06 Jun 2022
Here are a few things to know about the literary masterpiece that has exhilarated and confounded its readers for 100 years.
Continue ReadingLocal publisher’s papers to live at Rochester
Tue, 12 Apr 2022
The Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation has acquired a 30-year writing and editing archive from author, poet, and BOA Edition, Ltd. publisher Peter Conners.
Continue ReadingWalt Whitman ‘more important now than ever’
Tue, 22 Mar 2022
On the anniversary of the Walt Whitman’s death, Ed Folsom ’76 (PhD) looked back on the legacy of the poet’s work, examples of which are available in the University’s libraries.
Continue ReadingEnglish professor’s cotranslation of poetry wins PEN American Literary Award
Tue, 01 Mar 2022
Everything I Don’t Know, translated from the Polish by Jennifer Grotz and Piotr Sommer, takes top honors for poetry in translation.
Continue ReadingNational Endowment for the Arts grant supports Open Letter’s ‘International Voices’ project
Tue, 11 Jan 2022
Lauded for contributing to Rochester’s creative economy, the nonprofit literary translation press will publish five works of literature with the funding.
Continue ReadingNovelist Joanna Scott returns to short stories in Excuse Me While I Disappear
Thu, 09 Dec 2021
The acclaimed writer and University of Rochester English professor explores the theme of ‘lost stories.’
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