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From Woolf to Hemingway: The Transformation of Literary Dialogue

January 9, 2020

Prof. Elizabeth Alsop looks at the development and transformation of literary dialogue in fiction novels throughout the centuries, giving it a "greater capacity for signification." Read more ›

Writing Around the Day Job: A Debut Novel Takes Shape

April 12, 2019

| The City College of New York

When Raymond Strom graduated with his M.F.A. from The City College of New York in 2009, he wanted to do what he’d just attended school for: write. But life had a different plan. Read more ›

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A Bronx Tale in Verse

March 21, 2019

| Queens College

A Queens college graduate student expounds upon the Bronx's vernacular beauty in a new poem published with 'The New Yorker.' Read more ›

Brigett Davis and her mother Fannie posing at Bridgett's college graduation

The Numbers: A Daughter of Detroit Tells the Family Secret

February 28, 2019

| Baruch College

A Baruch College professor tells the story of growing up in Detroit with a mother who ran a thriving numbers business, which was an illegal individually-run lottery. Read more ›

SNAPSHOT: College Writing

February 13, 2019

| Borough of Manhattan Community College, Brooklyn College, The Graduate Center

Many students begin at two-year community colleges and transfer to four-year senior colleges. How prepared are they? Read more ›

Three Tales of Feminism and Friendship

February 1, 2019

| The Graduate Center

In a new book, a professor recounts three foundational friendships that helped her navigate the fraught nature of academia. Read more ›

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Inside the Actor’s Diary: A Glimpse into the 19th Century

October 12, 2018

| Brooklyn College, LaGuardia Community College

The 19th century actor Harry Watkins kept a diary for 15 years, faithfully recording his time in the theater, the turbulent period before the Civil War, and pressing issues affecting the country. Read more ›

Capturing the Refugee Crisis, One Word at a Time

September 7, 2018

| Hunter College

Poet Tom Sleigh’s new book is a collection of essays he wrote after witnessing the experience of refugees throughout East Africa and the Middle East. Read more ›

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