CINDY SPIEGEL is co-CEO of Spiegel & Grau, an independent publishing company that was previously an imprint of Penguin Random House. Before that she was Publisher of Riverhead Books, where she was a founding…
Creative Responses to the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
Herman Beavers (Professor of English & African Studies, Director of Civic House), with general introduction by David Wallace (Center for Italian Studies)
Sep 30, 2021
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Since 1865, and long before, the Divine Comedy of Dante (1265-1321) has inspired and challenged African American writers; Frederick Douglass kept a portrait of the poet in his library. Now in 2021, 700 years after…
sponsored by: the Wexler Fund for Jewish Life and Culture
Sam Apple
Sep 14, 2021
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In Ravenous, Sam Apple reclaims Otto Warburg as a forgotten, morally compromised genius who pursued cancer single-mindedly even as Europe disintegrated around him. While the vast majority of Jewish scientists fled…
An Interviewed Centered on Hendrickson's 2012 Book
May 17, 2021
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We welcome aboard Paul Hendrickson for a discussion about his poignant book on Hemingway’s beloved Pilar, the best-selling Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost.
Lorene Cary, PennCW professor, founder of Vote That Jawn, and author of LADYSITTING (among many other books), will be reading “at” Haverford College on Thursday, April 29, at 7 pm ET.
A small group of graduating seniors have been working hard to complete their Creative Writing thesis projects – long-form creative literary works in poetry, fiction,…
Kelly Writers House Fellow Gabrielle Hamilton joins us for a reading of her work. Hamilton is the chef/owner of Prune restaurant in New York; author of Prune, the cookbook, and the bestselling memoir Blood, Bones…
