2024
Monday, March 25, 2024
The 2019 Shirley Jackson Award winner reads from his work
Campus Center, Weis Cinema 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Novelist and short story writer Brian Evenson will read from new work at Bard College on Monday, March 25 at 5:00 pm in Weis Cinema, located in the Bertelsmann Campus Center. Evenson is the author of a dozen books of fiction, most recently the story collection The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell (2021), and the Weird West microcollection Black Bark (2023). The reading, which is being presented as part of Bradford Morrow’s course on innovative contemporary fiction, is free and open to the public. Evenson’s collection Song for the Unraveling of the World (2019) won the Shirley Jackson Award and the World Fantasy Award, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times’ Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction. Previous books have won the American Library Association’s RUSA Prize Award and the International Horror Guild Award, and have been finalists for the Edgar Award. He is the recipient of three O. Henry Prizes, an NEA fellowship, and a Guggenheim Award. His work has been translated into more than a dozen languages. A new book, Good Night, Sleep Tight, will be published by Coffee House Press in September of 2024. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches at CalArts. Praise for Brian Evenson “His stories are deeply terrifying and so troubling that they linger in your mind long after you've read them.” —R.L. Stine “There is not a more intense, prolific, or apocalyptic writer of fiction in America than Brian Evenson.” —George Saunders “Brian Evenson is one of the most consistently vital and unnerving voices in writing today. . . . No matter where you start with Evenson’s work, the door is wide ajar, and once you go through it you won't be coming out.” —VICE “Brian Evenson is one of my favorite living horror writers.” —Carmen Maria Machado “You’ve heard of ‘postmodern’ stories—well, Evenson’s stories are post-everything. They are post-human, post-reason, post-apocalyptic. . . . In an Evenson story, there are two horrible things that can happen to you. You can either fail to survive, or survive.” — New York Times |
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Visiting Professor of Humanities Adam Shatz reads selections from his new book, followed by a conversation with Ziad Dallal, Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures and Director of Middle East Studies.
Reem-Kayden Center; Room 103 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5 About the Rebel's Clinic: “In the era of Black Lives Matter, Frantz Fanon’s shadow looms larger than ever. He was the intellectual activist of the postcolonial era, and his writings about race, revolution, and the psychology of power continue to shape radical movements across the world. In this searching biography, Adam Shatz tells the story of Fanon’s stunning journey, which has all the twists of a Cold War-era thriller.” |
Monday, February 26, 2024
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5
On Monday, February 26 at 5:30 pm in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center (RKC), Richard Deming will read from his book, This Exquisite Loneliness: What Loners, Outcasts, and the Misunderstood Can Teach Us About Creativity. Introduced by Written Arts Program Director Dinaw Mengestu and followed by a discussion with David and Ruth Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature Ann Lauterbach. Richard Deming is a poet, art critic, and theorist whose work explores the intersections of poetry, philosophy, and visual culture. His most recent book, This Exquisite Loneliness, appeared in 2023. He is also the author of Day for Night, Listening on All Sides, and Art of the Ordinary. His collection of poems, Let’s Not Call It Consequence, received the Norma Farber Award from the Poetry Society of America. He contributes to such magazines as Artforum, Sight & Sound, and the Boston Review, and his poems have appeared in the Iowa Review, Field, American Letters & Commentary, and The Nation. Winner of the Berlin Prize, he was the Spring 2012 John P. Birkelund Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin. He teaches at Yale University, where he is the director of Creative Writing. |
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Olin Humanities, Room 202 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5
The Written Arts program will be holding a moderation Q&A in Olin 202. Students intending to moderate into the Written Arts will have the opportunity to speak with faculty about the moderation process and specific Written Arts requirements. Students intending to moderate into Written Arts this semester are required to attend this event. Those who are unable to attend are asked to please notify the program coordinator ([email protected]) in advance. |