Campus Events
Incidents In the Life of a Slave Girl Discussion TODAY
The Center for Student Engagement will be hosting a discussion on Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl today at 1 PM in Alston 216!
City Events
Cory Doctorow at the Decatur Library
Little Shop of Stories will be hosting author Cory Doctorow at the Decatur Library to promote his new book, Homeland. The event is tonight at 7 PM, and it’s free. Here’s an summary of the book, via Amazon: In Cory Doctorow’s wildly successful Little Brother, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized by Read more
City Events
Lawrence P. Jackson at the Decatur Library
Dr. Lawrence P. Jackson will be lecturing on his latest book, My Father’s Name, a memoir about his search for his heritage, tonight at the Decatur Library at 7:15 PM in the library’s auditorium. (If you’re in the parking lot, take the stairs on the left of the walkway into the Read more
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Junot Diaz Interview
Over our winter break, Lightspeed Magazine published an interview with past Writers’ Festival guest Junot Diaz, discussing speculative fiction and his latest book, This is How You Lose Her. It’s a transcript of an interview done on The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy, which you can listen to here.
Campus Events
Incidents In the Life of a Slave Girl Discussion
The Center for Student Engagement will be hosting a discussion on Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl on February 19th at 1 PM in Alston 216. The book is in the public domain and available online here.
Campus Events
Tananarive Due at Agnes Scott TOMORROW
Author Tananarive Due will be giving a fiction reading tomorrow night in Dana at 7 PM. A book signing will follow the event. Due is the author of twelve novels, as well as a recipient of the NAACP Image Award. The event is free, so you’ve got no excuse!
Guests
The Paris Review Interviews Peter Carey
In 2006, the Paris Review interviewed Agnes Scott Writers’ Festival attendee Peter Carey about his work, especially Theft: A Love Story. Check it out!
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Listen to Eavan Boland Read “The Wife’s Lament”
Agnes Scott Writers’ Festival attendee Eavan Boland reads her poem, “The Wife’s Lament“.
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An Interview with Julia Alverez
In 2009, Agnes Scott Writers’ Festival attendee Julia Alverez was awarded the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award by Montgomery College; Professor Heurgo interviews the author.
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The Rumpus Interviews Junot Diaz
Earlier this year, Agnes Scott Writers’ Festival attendee Junot Diaz’s This Is How You Lose Her was released; the Rumpus interviews the author about his new novel and his past work.
