Hua Hsu’s Stay True: A Memoir Wins 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography
The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) has announced the recipients of its book awards for 2022. Bard Professor of Literature Hua Hsu’s Stay True: A Memoir won the award for autobiography. NBCC Committee Chair Heather Scott Partington called Hsu’s account of a college-age friendship a “clear-eyed and vulnerable exploration of platonic friendship and lifelong loss” that “demonstrates how earnest teens seek to define themselves in dichotomies, and how it’s our routines that create our identities.”
Review: Writer in Residence Mona Simpson’s “Stunning” New Novel about a Family and Mental Illness
Acclaimed novelist and Bard writer in residence Mona Simpson this week published her seventh novel, Commitment (Knopf). A “minimalist masterpiece” (Ann Levin, Associated Press) the novel follows a California family in the 1970s and 1980s whose three siblings must learn to navigate their lives after their mother is institutionalized for severe depression. “Simpson is an artist of the family saga, the multigenerational narrative. In her seventh novel, she doesn’t revisit this territory so much as animate it anew.” (Kirkus) Commitment is one of Kirkus’s 20 Best Books to Read in March.Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking Hosts Conference on the Use of Voice in Writing on April 28
The Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking’s (IWT) upcoming April Conference, "Crafting, Composing, Conversing: The Writer’s Voice Reconsidered," will focus on the teaching practices that help students to develop their writerly voices. This conference will welcome educators of all disciplines to Bard College's Annandale campus on Friday, April 28, 2023, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Speaker Peter Elbow, the author of the bestselling books Writing without Teachers and Writing with Power, will deliver the keynote address. The conference offers an online attendance option for those who are unable to join in person at Annandale.More News
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Peter L’Official Interviews Architect and Writer Sekou Cooke on Hip-Hop as a Blueprint for Architecture
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Works by Bard Faculty Featured in Best of 2022 Lists
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Opinion: We can’t be lulled into a false sense of security. Trumpism is far from over. Bard Faculty Francine Prose in the Guardian
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Joseph Luzzi’s Botticelli’s Secret Named Among New Yorker’s Best Books of 2022 So Far
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