ICPL Presentations 2016

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9/2/16 • Right to Remove, Right to Refuge

9/9/16 • Fiction in the Age of Film

9/16/16 • At Language's Edge

9/23/16 • "Real Work"

9/30/16 • The Shape of Your Paragraph: Genre and Its Constraints

10/7/16 • Writing and Politics (IC Book Festival panel)

10/14/16 • The Sound of Your Words, the Line on Your Screen: Hybrid Media

10/21/16 • World Literature Today: Cross-currents

 

Happening Now

  • We regret the passing, on April 11, 2024, of the distinguished Romanian author and critic Dan Cristea, who served as the editor in chief of the Luceafărul de Dimineață cultural monthly. In addition to being an alum of the 1985 Fall Residency, Cristea received his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa.

  • Our congratulations to 1986 Fall Residency writer Kwame Dawes, who has been named the new poet laureate of Jamaica.

  • Congratulations to our colleagues Jennifer Croft and Aron Aji, who are among those serving as judges for the National Book Awards this year, in their case in the category of translated literature.

  • Ranjit Hoskote’s speech at the 2024 Goa Literary Festival addresses the current situation in Gaza.

  • In NY Times, Bina Shah worries about the state of Pakistani—and American—democracy.

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