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April 18: Rebecca Makkai, fiction reading – 7 PM, Buttrick 101
Apr. 4, 2024—♦April 18, 7 PM, Buttrick 101: Rebecca Makkai, Fiction Rebecca Makkai is the Chicago-based author of the novels The Great Believers, The Hundred-Year House, and The Borrower, as well as the short story collection Music for Wartime. The Great Believers was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and received the ALA Carnegie Medal and the...
April 4, 2023: Bianca Stone, poetry reading – 7 PM, Buttrick 101
Mar. 25, 2024—♦April 4, 7 PM, Buttrick 101: Bianca Stone, poetry Bianca Stone is the author of the poetry collections What is Otherwise Infinite (Tin House, 2022), which won the 2023 Vermont Book Award in Poetry; The Möbius Strip Club of Grief, Someone Else’s Wedding Vows and collaborated with Anne Carson on the illuminated version of Antigonick. Her work has appeared in many...
March 21, 2024: Carlson-Wee, Jiménez, and Kunz — Alumni Reading Event @ 7 PM, Buttrick 101
Mar. 10, 2024—March 21, 2024 @ 7PM, Buttrick 101: Alumni Reading Event featuring Anders Carlson-Wee, Claire Jiménez, and Edgar Kunz Anders Carlson-Wee is the author of Disease of Kings, forthcoming from W.W. Norton in October 2023. He is also the author of The Low Passions, and Dynamite, winner of the Frost Place Chapbook Prize. His work has...
February 22, 2024: Sidik Fofana, fiction reading – 7 PM, Buttrick 101
Feb. 14, 2024—February 22, 7 PM: Sidik Fofana, Buttrick 101 Sidik Fofana is the author of Stories from the Tenants Downstairs, his debut short story collection composed of eight narratives about residents of a fictional building in Harlem. His work has appeared in the Sewanee Review and Granta. Fofana is a graduate of NYU’s MFA program and...
Jan. 29 | Multilingualism and Global Anglophone: A Conversation with Rebecca Walkowitz
Jan. 23, 2024—Join us for Multilingualism and Global Anglophone: A Conversation with Rebecca Walkowitz. The talk will be Monday, January 29 from noon to 2 PM in Buttrick Hall, Room 409. Lunch will be provided, but please RSVP to Arianna Pappas: arianna.f.pappas@vanderbilt.edu. Make sure to read the essay that can be downloaded as a PDF here...
January 25, 2024: Megan Fernandez, poetry reading – 7 PM, Buttrick 101
Jan. 9, 2024—January 25, 7 PM, Buttrick 101: Megan Fernandez, Poetry Megan Fernandes is the author of I Do Everything I’m Told, and Good Boys, a finalist for the Kundiman Book Prize, the Saturnalia Book Prize, and the Paterson Poetry Prize. She has work published in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Tin House, Ploughshares, Chicago Review, Boston Review, Rattle, PANK,...
November 30, 2023: Maggie Millner, fiction reading – 7 PM, Alumni Hall 206
Nov. 21, 2023—November 30 @ 7 PM, Alumni Hall – Room 206: Maggie Millner, Poetry Maggie Millner is the author of Couplets, published by FSG (US). Maggie’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, POETRY, Kenyon Review, BOMB, The Nation, and elsewhere. She is a Lecturer at Yale and a Senior Editor at The Yale Review....
November 9, 2023: Angie Cruz, fiction reading – 7 PM, Buttrick 101
Oct. 26, 2023—November 9, 7 PM, Buttrick 101: Angie Cruz, Fiction Angie Cruz is a novelist and editor. Her most recent novel How Not To Drown in A Glass of Water (2022) is a finalist for the 2024 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, shortlisted for The Aspen Words Literary Prize, winner of the Gold Medal, Latino Book Award/The...
October 26, 2023: Michael Collier, poetry reading – 7 PM, Buttrick 101
Oct. 1, 2023— October 26, 7 PM, Buttrick 101: Michael Collier, Poetry Michael Collier is the author of eight books of poems, among them, The Missing Mountain: New & Selected Poems and The Ledge, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Collier has received Guggenheim and Thomas Watson fellowships, two National...
October 12, 2023: Jamil Jan Kochai, fiction reading – 7 PM, Buttrick 101
Sep. 28, 2023—October 12, 7 PM, Buttrick 101: Jamil Jan Kochai, Fiction Jamil Jan Kochai is the author of The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories, winner of the 2023 Aspen Words Literary Prize and a finalist for the 2022 National Book Award. His debut novel, 99 Nights in Logar, was a finalist for the Pen/Hemingway...