Event

with Kristen Pearson (C'18) & Kevin Chen

watch: a video recording of this event

listen: to an audio recording of this event

listen: to an interview with Daniel Levin Becker conducted by Michelle Taransky in the Wexler Studio

DANIEL LEVIN BECKER is the youngest member of the Paris-based literary collective Oulipo. His first book, Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature, was published by Harvard University Press in 2012. He is also a translator, a music and book critic, and literary editor of The Believermagazine. He lives in San Francisco.

KRISTEN PEARSON is a Freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. She is a poet and aspiring novelist, with a particular interest in the intersections between the sciences and the humanities. Apart from writing, Kristen enjoys drawing, learning foreign languages, and dancing the tango. Her favorite word is "plenilune" and her favorite book is The Iliad.

KEVIN CHEN is freshman in the College currently considering a double major in Physics and English. He is involved in math tutoring and math lesson planning with Moelis Access Science and interested in further exploring the relationships between math, literature, art, and science during college. He took the Writing by the Numbers seminar because he liked the idea of thinking about the process of creativity and writing in a mathematical context. He says his greatest inspiration for studying science actually came from his literature class when he read an article on seeding the sense of wonder and awe in education. His favorite hobbies include playing the drums and reading popular science books.