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November 2015

11-27-2015
Logue's Homer, "because of its radical departures, gets us closer to the original than many more defensibly 'faithful' translations have ever managed."
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Social Studies,Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
11-22-2015
At 15 years old, Bard writer in residence Francine Prose took a job in Bellevue Hospital’s morgue, where her doctor parents hoped she would turn her interests from writing to science.
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
11-19-2015
Conjunctions:65, Sleights of Hand—the latest issue of the innovative literary magazine published by Bard College—gathers a wide spectrum of essays, fiction, and poetry on the subject of deception, exploring a world in which truth is a most fragile, elaborate, and mercurial thing. Edited by Conjunctions editor, novelist, and Bard literature professor Bradford Morrow, Sleights of Hand includes new work from such leading contemporary writers as James Morrow, Laura van den Berg, Porochista Khakpour, Can Xue, Joyce Carol Oates, Edie Meidav, Eleni Sikelianos, Terese Svoboda, Yannick Murphy, Peter Straub, and Paul West, among others.
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Meta: Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Conjunctions |
11-19-2015
Professor Ian Buruma has been described as “one of the few remaining ‘public intellectuals’."
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of the Arts,Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
11-18-2015
These famous comic book authors become the heroes of their own stories in upcoming memoirs.
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of the Arts,Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
11-09-2015
For the first time, the Museum of Modern Art and the Performa art biennial have co-commissioned a work: There Are Certain Facts That Cannot Be Disputed, by Bard alumna Juliana Huxtable.
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Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Bardians at Work,Division of the Arts,Alumni/ae | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
11-01-2015
On Monday, November 9, Brian Evenson—the celebrated and controversial author of Altmann’s Tongue, The Wavering Knife, The Open Curtain, Last Days, Windeye, and other books—will read from his work at Bard College. “There is not a more intense, prolific, or apocalyptic writer of fiction in America than Brian Evenson,” says writer George Saunders. Evenson will be introduced by novelist and Bard literature professor Bradford Morrow. The reading, presented as part of Morrow’s Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series, takes place at 2:30 p.m. in Weis Cinema at the Bertelsmann Campus Center and will be followed by a Q&A. It is free and open to the public; no reservations are required.
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Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature |
11-01-2015
Author Alexandra Kleeman has been selected to receive the annual Bard Fiction Prize for 2016. The prize, established in 2001 by Bard College to encourage and support promising young fiction writers, consists of a $30,000 cash award and appointment as writer in residence for one semester. Kleeman is receiving the prize for her debut novel You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine (Harper 2015).  
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Credit: Photo by Graham Webster
Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
11-01-2015
Inspired by the short biographies in the Library of America's 19th-century American poetry collections, Luc Sante offers "a tribute ... this collective portrait, like an overlay of photographic transparencies."
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Credit: Photo by Graham Webster
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
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