Well, we had a really nice week with Claire Messud. She was our 2009 Rea Visiting Writer in Fiction and gave a craft talk, held individual conferences with our fiction students, and gave a public reading. Here’s a video snippet from that reading over at the Harrison Institute/Small Special Collections Library. Her text is her [...]
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 Written by Jeb Livingood on November 20th, 2009Category: Fiction, MFA, Meridian News, Readings, UVA MFA News, Video, Visiting Writer Readings | Tags: claire messud, Fiction, reading |  Leave a comment | Share:
Written by Jazzy Danziger on October 28th, 2009…And here is fiction writer Emily Sandberg from the October 27th reading. Category: Fiction, MFA, Readings, Student Readings, UVA MFA News, Video | Tags: bel rio, emily sandberg, Fiction, MFA, Readings, Video | Leave a comment | Share:
Written by Kevin Allardice on September 22nd, 2009Once again, I’m fairly upset that I didn’t make the cut (I thought I filled out the application perfectly this year — this time I made sure to spell “genius” correctly), but I’m glad to see that our beloved teacher Deborah Eisenberg is getting some recognition from (Douglas?) MacArthur. Category: Fiction, Publishing, UVA MFA News | Tags: deborah eisenberg, Fiction, macarthur genius grant, uva | Leave a comment | Share:
Written by Kevin Allardice on September 20th, 2009Here’s some good news, I think. And it’s great that she picked something that wasn’t already a bestseller. Written by Kevin Allardice on September 14th, 2009The trailer for John Krasinski’s David Foster Wallace’s Brief Interviews with Hideous Men is up online, and I have to say: it looks surprisingly bland and sitcomish. But maybe I’m saying that because it features the best friend from The Single Guy as Subject #59. (Not that I have anything against former sitcom actors trying [...] |
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