Susan Orlean Reading, Signing
New Yorker Staffer Hailed as One of America’s “Most Distinctive Journalistic Voices” New York Times best-selling author Susan Orlean is coming to Hofstra on Wednesday, April 5, at 6:30 p.m. to wrap up...
View ArticleFall 2017 Great Writers, Great Readings
Featuring Lily King, Elisabeth Schmitz, Claudia Rankine, and John McPhee Hofstra’s annual Great Writers, Great Readings Series begins its 2017-2018 season by welcoming author Lily King and her editor...
View ArticleBook Launch Party for “This Is the Place”
A book launch party for This Is the Place: Women Writing about Home, co-edited by Assistant Professor of English Kelly McMasters and Margot Kahn, will take place at McNally Jackson Books on Tuesday,...
View ArticleAuthor John McPhee Returns to Hofstra
Final Great Writers, Great Readings Event of 2017 Hofstra’s Great Writers, Great Readings Series will close its fall 2017 season with Pulitzer Prize winning author John McPhee on Wednesday, November...
View ArticleA Spring of Great Writers
The meaning of home, the art of translating fiction into many languages, and poetry in performance will be highlighted in the spring 2018 season of Great Writers, Great Readings. This series, presented...
View ArticleStudent Play Festival Finalist
The Mouse, a short play by Tyler Thier, a second-year student in the MFA in Creative Writing program, is a finalist in the Tree of Life 360 Festival, which features unpublished, previously unproduced...
View ArticleNo Place Like Home
Great Writers, Great Readings Event Celebrates New Essay Collection The first installment of the Spring 2018 Great Writers, Great Readings series puts the spotlight on This Is the Place: Women Writing...
View ArticleArt of Translation
The Great Writers, Great Readings series will present a panel of gifted writers who make the works of foreign authors accessible to readers in other languages. This program, “The Art of Translation,”...
View ArticleTara Betts Poetry Reading
Part of the Great Writers, Great Readings Series Hofstra’s Great Writers, Great Readings Series will close its spring 2018 season with poet and spoken word/performance artist Tara Betts on Wednesday,...
View ArticleEmmy-Nominated Writer/Producer Launches Fall Great Writers
Emmy-nominated Hofstra alumnus Gary Janetti, one of the creative comedic minds behind Will & Grace and Family Guy, will be the premiere speaker of the university’s fall 2018 Great Writers, Great...
View ArticleStudent Film Chosen for Record Five Festivals
A new film by graduate documentary student Indrani Kopal ’15 has now been accepted to five festivals, the most of any student film in the MFA Documentary Studies and Production program. “The Game...
View ArticleGreat Writers, Great Readings Welcomes Poet Michael Collier, Oct. 14
Poet Michael Collier, director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and former poet laureate of Maryland, is the first speaker for the 11th season of Hofstra’s Great Writers, Great Readings Series,...
View ArticleGreat Writers, Great Readings Welcomes Author Jeffrey K. Eugenides (“The...
Hofstra’s 11th annual Great Writers, Great Readings Series welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey K. Eugenides on Monday, November 10, at 7 p.m. Location is the Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center...
View ArticleJeffrey K. Eugenides (“The Virgin Suicides”) Reading Tonight, Nov. 10
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey K. Eugenides is on campus today to participate in the Great Writers, Great Readings Series. Earlier today, he met with English majors and students in the MFA in...
View ArticleNew Yorker Staff Writer and Author D.T. Max Next Up for Great Writers, Great...
Hofstra University’s 11th Annual Great Writers, Great Readings Series welcomes D.T. Max, staff writer at The New Yorker whose 2012 book, Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster...
View ArticleGreat Writers, Great Readings Welcomes Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright...
Hofstra’s 11th annual Great Writers, Great Readings Series welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winner Quiara Alegría Hudes, who wrote the book for the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical In the Heights. More...
View ArticlePulitzer Playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes Shares Selections from New Musical
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes performed songs from a new musical, tentatively titled Miss You Like Hell, with her collaborator and accompanist Erin McKeown while she was on...
View ArticleGrad Student’s Film to Screen at Cannes
A widely-acclaimed documentary by MFA film student Indrani Kopal will be screened at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, the most prestigious and famous film festival in the world. Her film, The Game...
View ArticleGrad Student’s Film Wins at Cannes Festival
MFA film student Indrani Kopal’s short film, The Game Changer, was named best student documentary Monday at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival in France, the most prestigious of international film...
View ArticleAlums’ Films Win Festival Honors
Two alumni of the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication’s film programs have won honors at the Metropolitan Film Festival, a New York City festival that showcases the best in independent filmmaking....
View ArticleAuthor Kelly McMasters Joins Faculty; Hosts July 14 Reading
Kelly McMasters, author of Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir from an Atomic Town and a new member of the Hofstra English Department faculty, will present a talk and reading of her work on Tuesday, July 14,...
View ArticleBiography by Julia Markus to be Published on Ada Lovelace Bicentenary
Dr. Julia Markus, professor of English and a core faculty member of Hofstra’s MFA in Creative Writing program, will see the publication of her new book, Lady Byron and Her Daughters (W. W. Norton &...
View ArticleJulia Markus Celebrates Publication of Lady Byron Biography
The 200th anniversary of the birth of Ada Lovelace, a 19th century science and technology pioneer, falls on the same date that a biography of her mother, Lady Byron, is being published by a Hofstra...
View ArticleJulia Markus Reading at the Astoria Bookshop, Oct. 28
Dr. Julia Markus, a core faculty member of the MFA in Creative Writing program, is scheduled to present a reading of her new book, Lady Byron and Her Daughters (W.W. Norton & Company), at the...
View ArticleA Rave for Julia Markus in The New York Times Book Review
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View ArticleMFA in Creative Writing to Host Reception at the Center for Fiction in NYC
Hofstra’s MFA in Creative Writing Program is hosting an open house at the Center for Fiction in New York City on Saturday, February 6, from 2-4:30 p.m. Meet MFA faculty, alumni and students to learn...
View ArticleMemoirist Dani Shapiro Closes Great Writers Spring Season
Hofstra’s annual Great Writers, Great Readings Series wraps up the spring 2016 semester with author Dani Shapiro on Monday, April 11, 2016, at 7 p.m. Location is the Guthart Theater, first floor, Axinn...
View ArticleJulia Markus to Discuss Lady Byron at San Jose State Univ.
Dr. Julia Markus, a core faculty member of the MFA in Creative Writing program, will take part in a reading, discussion and book signing, “Lady Byron and Lady Caroline Lamb: Survivors of Storm Byron,...
View ArticlePhillip Lopate Launches 2016-17 Great Writers, Great Readings Season
Hofstra’s annual Great Writers, Great Readings Series begins its 2016-2017 by welcoming former faculty member Phillip Lopate back to campus on Wednesday, September 28, at 7 p.m. Location is the Guthart...
View ArticlePhillip Lopate Returns to Hofstra to Open New Season of Great Writers, Great...
Hofstra’s annual Great Writers, Great Readings Series began its 2016-2017 by welcoming former faculty member Phillip Lopate back to campus on September 28 at the Guthart Theater. His reading was...
View ArticlePulitzer Prize-Winning Author Jhumpa Lahiri to Discuss Her Writing and the...
The 13th annual Great Writers, Great Reading Series continues with Pulitzer Prize winning author Jhumpa Lahiri on Monday, October 10, 7 p.m. at The Helene Fortunoff Theater, Monroe Lecture Center,...
View ArticleGreat Writers, Great Readings Features the Series’ First Joint Presentation
The next Great Writers, Great Readings event is the series’ first joint presentation by Hofstra’s own Miguel-Angel Zapata and Álvaro Enrigue on Wednesday, October 19, at 7 p.m. at the Guthart Cultural...
View ArticlePoet Mario Susko Speaks at “Poetry of Witness” Class
Croatian poet and Bosnian war witness and survivor Mario Susko was recently a guest speaker at Professor Connie Roberts’ MFA course, “Poetry of Witness”. Although he described some events in his life...
View ArticlePoetry Reading by Lia Purpura Brings Fall Author Series to a Close
The finale of the fall 2016 season of Great Writers, Great Readings is a poetry reading by Lia Purpura on Thursday, November 17, at 7 p.m. at the Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library, First...
View ArticleA. Van Jordan Launches Spring Great Readings
Award-winning poet A. Van Jordan begins Hofstra’s Great Writers, Great Readings Series spring 2017 season on Wednesday, March 15, 6:30 p.m. Jordan, who has published four books of poetry – The...
View ArticleFirst International Symposium on Creative Writing in Spanish
To celebrate the launch of a new MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish, Hofstra University is presenting a daylong writing and literature symposium on Thursday, November 15, featuring celebrated authors...
View ArticleAuthor Daniel Mendelsohn Closes Fall Great Writers
Daniel Mendelsohn, an internationally-bestselling author, award-winning critic, essayist, and Harper’s columnist, closes the chapter on the Fall 2018 season of Great Writers, Great Readings on...
View ArticleMFA Night at the KGB Bar
Students from Hofstra’s MFA in Creative Writing program will read excerpts of their work at Manhattan’s KGB Bar, a New York literary institution that regularly hosts readings by seasoned and emerging...
View ArticleWhitehead, Tretheway, Fries Headline Great Writers Series
Colson Whitehead, author of the New York Times bestseller, The Nickel Boys and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Underground Railroad, is coming to Hofstra for a reading this fall as part of the...
View ArticleArctic Adventure
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