Writing at Wesleyan Lecture Series Podcast
1) Deborah Baker
Deborah Baker is the author of the acclaimed, unconventional biographical studies The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism, a finalist for the 2011 National Book Award, and A Blue Hand: The Beats in...Show More
2) Fred Moten
Fred Moten works at the intersection of performance, poetry, and critical theory. His books of poetry include Hughson's Tavern, B. Jenkins, and The Feel Trio. He is also the author of In the Break: Th...Show More
3) Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore reads from The End Of San Francisco
Writer, activist, artist, and queer critic Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore reads from her memoir, THE END OF SAN FRANCISCO (City Lights), at Wesleyan University on November 19, 2013. Mattilda Bernstein Sy...Show More
4) Robert Gluck
Robert Gluck is the author of nine books of poetry and fiction, including two novels, Margery Kempe and Jack the Modernist, and a collection of stories, Denny Smith. He co-edited the anthology Biting ...Show More
5) Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor for The Atlantic and the author of the memior The Beautiful Struggle. Coates lives in New York with his wife and son. His work for The Atlantic received the 2012 Sy...Show More
6) Joseph Fins, MD: The Struggle For Consciousness: Stories of Patients, Their Families, And Medical Reasearch
Dr. Fins will describe how conversations with patients' families, as well as the process of writing, have contributed to research and raised broader ethical questions such as what society owes patient...Show More
7) Ben Lerner
Ben Lerner is the author of three books of poetry: The Lichtenberg Figures (2004), Angle of Yaw (2006), and Mean Free Path (2010). His first novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, won The Believer Book Aw...Show More
8) Salvatore Scibona / Tonya Foster
Salvatore Scibona's novel, The End, was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the Young Lions Fiction Award from the New York Public Library. His writing has also appeared in the New York Tim...Show More
9) Yusef Komunyakaa
Yusef Komunyakaa is a Pulitzer Prize winning poet and the author of twenty books of poetry. He received a bronze star for his service as a journalist in the Vietnam War and is a professor and senior d...Show More