Alumni Stories: Nicole Treska’s “Love Letter to Her Family”
A mobster father and a winding road leading from Hawaii to New York are just some of the stories MFA alum Nicole Treska explores in her interview for the “Indoor Voices” podcast.
Book Talk: Robert Higney, Institutional Character
Friday, December 1st from 4-5 pm Robert Higney will present a talk on his recent book Institutional Character: Collectivity, Individuality, and the Modernist Novel (University of Virginia Press, 2022), hosted by the CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences. The event will be held on Zoom. Register here:https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwsf-qupzkoGtEde7QfbKU7XuwlVd1lwsSE#/registration
Craft as Brand: Authoring Your Career
CCNY’s MFA Program in Creative Writing Presentsa Publishing Workshop with Yahdon Israel Senior Editor, Simon & Schuster and Guest Professor Craft as Brand: Authoring Your Career This workshop will help the emerging writer craft their career as a writer. Tuesday November 28th from 7:00 – 8:00 pm Rifkind Room NAC 6/316 Yahdon Israel is an educator, entrepreneur, editor, writer …
Hachette Book Group hosts the 25th Anniversary of the Publishing Certificate Program
On September 27th, 2023, CCNY’s Publishing Certificate Program celebrated its 25th Anniversary amongst industry luminaries at the Hachette Book Group’s headquarters in New York City. CCNY President Vincent Boudreau joined PCP co-founder and novelist Walter Mosley to mark this achievement and underscore the important role the PCP has played in increasing diversity in the publishing …
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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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A Conversation with Carlos Aguasaco, Chai & Chat Reading Series
The CCNY MFA in Creative Writing presentsChai & Chat Reading Series FA23 A Conversation with Carlos Aguasaco Poet, Professor and Director of the Americas Poetry Festival Moderated by Prof. Michelle Valladares Tuesday, November 14th 5 – 7 pm Rifkind Center, NAC 6/316 Sponsored by the Estate of the Kenneth Kowald Fund for Advancing American Literature …
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In My Eyes, You Are Beautiful: A Reading & Conversation with David Unger
CCNY’s MFA in Creative Writing Reading Series Fall 2023 presents: David Unger Novelist, Translator & Professor A Reading and Conversation to Celebrate the English Translation of his Book, In My Eyes, You Are Beautiful Thurs. Nov 9 2023s:oo-6:oo pmRifkind Center NAC 6/316 David Unger received Guatemala’s Miguel Angel Asturias National Literature Prize for lifetime achievement …
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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 …
Reading and Conversation with Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
CCNY’s MFA in Creative WritingReading Series Fall 2023 A Reading and Conversation with Rahna Reiko Rizzuto — Guest Professor, Novelist and Memoirist Monday, October 16, 20235:00 – 7:00pmRifkind Center, NA 6/316 The MFA in Creative Writing at City College invites you to a reading and conversation with Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, a guest professor, novelist and …
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Salar Abdoh’s article published in The Atlantic
In their article How to Be a Man in Iran, published in The Atlantic this month, CCNY Professor Salar Abdoh and Tehran-based journalist Vali Khalili describe how the return of morality police to city streets is a testing ground for women’s rights and everyone’s courage.