Professor Lyn Di Iorio ‘s “Maritza and Carmen”
Professor Lyn Di Iorio has a new novelette, Maritza and Carmen, published in the fall issue of The Georgia Review. thegeorgiareview.com/shop/issues/fall-2024
New book out by Professor Keith Gandal
Professor Keith Gandal has published a new memoir: Firsthand: How I Solved a Literary Mystery and Learned to Play Kickass Tennis while Coming to Grips with the Disorder of Things. Published by Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2024. You can get 30% off the $25 cost for the paperback and kindle versions by going directly …
Soraya Palmer Named a 2024 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow
We are thrilled to announce that Prof. Soraya Palmer, who teaches fiction in the MFA Program at CCNY, has just received the NYSCA/NYFA Award for Fiction
Essay by Emily Raboteau in Orion Magazine
Gutbucket, by Emily Raboteau At the end of the world, rituals offer a lifeline I AM A MOTHER raising Black children in New York City, which is unceded Munsee Lenape territory. Often, I am afraid for my children’s lives. Where my family lives, the storms are growing worse, and the water is rising, and these are …
Interview with Professor Mark Mirsky in Collidescope
MFA Professor Mark Mirsky, author, founder and editor of Fiction magazine and the former director of the Creative Writing Program, has a two-part interview in Collidescope this fall.Here are part one and part two.
Press for Salar Abdoh’s novel “A Nearby Country Called Love”
One Man’s Complicated Quest for Connection in Contemporary Tehran by Lysley Tenorio in the New York Times Book ReviewNov. 4, 2023 . . . explores the complexities of relationships, sexuality and cultural norms in modern Iran. Read review 10 noteworthy books for November and December By Becky Meloan in the Washington PostNov. 1, 2023 Abdoh’s brutally poignant novel explores …
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New Book Review by Emily Raboteau in in The Nation
The Good LifeWhat can we learn from the history of utopianism? Professor Emily Raboteau reviews Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life, by Kristen R. Ghodsee https://www.thenation.com/article/society/kristen-ghodsee-utopia/ In the desert of Saudi Arabia, between Jordan and the Red Sea, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is building a …
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New story by Salar Abdoh in “Fiction”
Borges’s Search For Averroes by Salar Abdoh AT THE END OF A STORY he wrote about the greatest medieval commentator of Aristotle, Borges noted: The instant I stop believing in him, Averroes disappears. As Borges observed, Averroes, who knew everything, could not understand one thing, and that was theater. And so it happened that when …
Salar Abdoh’s new novel selected for Buzz Books’ Great Reads Fall/Winter 2023
The MFA Program in Creative Writing has some wonderful news. Professor Salar Abdoh’s new novel, A Nearby Country Called Love, has been selected by Buzz Books for its Great Reads Fall/Winter 2023. Buzz Books posts one chapter of the author’s book on google books
Michelle Valladares and Aybike Ahmedi: CUNY MFAs on the Rise
In December 2022, Michelle Valladares, director of the MFA and Aybike Ahmedi, a current MFA student, were interviewed on the CUNY TV program Urban U