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2018 Brochure
THE COMMUNITY OF WRITERS 20I8 Summer Workshops... • Poetry Workshop: June 23 - 30 • Writers Workshops in Fiction, Nonfiction & Memoir: July 8 - 15 The Community of Writers For 48 summers, the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley has brought together poets and prose writers for separate weeks of workshops, individual conferences, lectures, panels, readings, and discussions of the craft and the business of writing. Our aim is to assist writers to improve their craft and thus, in an atmosphere of camaraderie and mutual support, move them closer to achieving their goals. The Community of Writers holds its summer writing workshops in Squaw Valley in a ski lodge at the foot of the ski slopes. Panels, talks, staff readings and workshops take place in these venues with a spectacular view up the mountain. ...& Other Projects • Published Alumni Reading Series: Recently published Writers Workshops alumni are invited to return to the valley to read from their books and talk about their journeys from unpublished writers to published authors. • Omnium Gatherum & Alumni News Blog: Chronicling the publication and other successes of its participants. • Craft Talk Anthology – Writers Workshop in a Book: An anthology of craft talks from the workshops, edited by Alan Cheuse and Lisa Alvarez. • Annual Benefit Poetry Reading: An annual event to raise funds for the Poetry Workshop’s Scholarship Fund. • Notable Alumni Webpage: A website devoted to a list of our notable alumni. • Facebook Alumni Groups: Social media alumni groups keep the community and conversation going. • Annual Poetry Anthology: Each year an anthology of poetry is published featuring poems first written during the Poetry Workshop in Squaw Valley. -
2014/2015 Omium Gatherum & Newsletter
2014-2015 Issue 19 omnium gatherum & newsletter ~ i~ COMMUNITY OF WRITERS AT SQUAW VALLEY GOT NEWS? Do you have news you would OMNIUM GATHERUM & NEWSLETTER like us to include in the next newsletter? The 2014-15, Issue 19 Omnium is published once a year. We print publishing credits, awards and similar new Community of Writers at Squaw Valley writing-related achievements, and also include A Non-Profit Corporation #629182 births. News should be from the past year only. P.O. Box 1416, Nevada City, CA 95959 Visit www.squawvalleywriters.org for more E-mail: [email protected] information and deadlines. www.squawvalleywriters.org Please note: We are not able to fact-check the submitted news. We apologize if any incorrect BOARD OF DIRECTORS information is published. President James Naify Vice President Joanne Meschery NOTABLE ALUMNI: Visit our Notable Alumni Secretary Jan Buscho pages and learn how to nominate yourself or Financial OfficerBurnett Miller a friend: Eddy Ancinas http://squawvalleywriters.org/ René Ancinas NotableAlumniScreen.html Ruth Blank http://squawvalleywriters.org/ Jan Buscho NotableAlumniWriters.html Max Byrd http://squawvalleywriters.org/ Alan Cheuse NotableAlumniPoets.html Nancy Cushing Diana Fuller ABOUT OUR ADVERTISERS The ads which Michelle Latiolais appear in this issue represent the work of Edwina Leggett Community of Writers staff and participants. Lester Graves Lennon These ads help to defray the cost of the Carlin Naify newsletter. If you have a recent or forthcom- Jason Roberts ing book, please contact us about advertising Christopher Sindt in our next annual issue. Contact us for a rate sheet and more information: (530) 470-8440 Amy Tan or [email protected] or visit: John C. -
Viet Thanh Nguyen CV 2019
VIET THANH NGUYEN • curriculum vitae University of Southern California Department of English Taper Hall of Humanities 404 3501 Trousdale Parkway Los Angeles, CA 90089-0354 213.740.3746 • [email protected] USC Faculty Website Personal website: vietnguyen.info ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE | employment , education, and titles University Professor, University of Southern California, 2018-present Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2018-present Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Southern California, 2017-present Professor, Departments of English and American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California, 2016-present Aerol Arnold Chair of English, University of Southern California, July 2016-present Interim Chair, Department of American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California, 2015-2016 Associate Professor, Departments of English and American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California, 2003-2016 Assistant Professor, Department of English and Program in American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California, 1997-2003 Ph.D., English, University of California, Berkeley, 1997 B.A., English, highest honors, University of California, Berkeley, 1992 B.A., Ethnic Studies, highest honors, University of California, Berkeley, 1992 PUBLICATIONS | books in progress Untitled Nonfiction Book, under contract with Grove/Atlantic, delivery in 2021. UK edition, Corsair. The Committed (novel), under contract with Grove/Atlantic, delivery in December 2019, excerpts in Ploughshares and Freeman’s. Foreign rights: 1. Hayakawa (Japanese) 2. Karl Blessing (German) 3. Alfaguara/Companhia das Lettras (Brazilian) 4. Belfond (French) 2/70 NGUYEN • curriculum vitae, 10/1/2019 5. Neri Pozza (Italian) 6. Elsinore (Portuguese) Featured in: 1. “The Ark,” short film adaptation of the opening to The Committed, by Matty Huynh, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center | A cultural laboratory for Asian Pacific American history, art, and culture, June 2018 PUBLICATIONS | single-authored books 1. -
2008/2009 Omnium Gatherum & Newsletter
omnium gatherum & newsletter 2 0 0 8 - 2 0 0 9 i s s u e 1 3 COMMUNITY OF WRITERS AT SQUAW VALLEY OUR SUPPORTERS OMNIUM GATHERUM & NEWSLETTER TABLE OF 2008-2009,.Issue.13 The.Community.of.Writers.gratefully. acknowledges the financial support that CONTENTS makes our programs possible: Community of Writers at Squaw Valley (In the online A Non-Profit Corporation #629182 University of California version, you can P.O. Box 1416, Nevada City, CA 95959 Depot Bookstore E-mail: [email protected] click on an item LEF Foundation www.squawvalleywriters.org to go there.) San Francisco Foundation Newsletter edited and designed by Anne & Gordon Getty Foundation Maxima Kahn The Bookshelf Bookstores with support and advice from Squaw Valley Institute Brett Hall Jones University of California/ Irvine Academy Foundation of The Academy of Note from the Editor . .4 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Announcing Our 2009 Summer Programs . .6 President Max Byrd Hotel Rex Poetry Staff News . .7 Vice President Joanne Meschery National Endowment for the Arts Secretary Eddy Ancinas Squaw Valley Ski Corporation PoetWatch: Poetry Participant News . .8 Financial OfficerBurnett Miller Entrekin Foundation Osvaldo Ancinas Poetry Participant Profile: Rusty Morrision . .18 and our many individual donors and friends, Jan Buscho Summer 2008 Special Thanks and Gallery of Photos . .20 Alan Cheuse as well as Lou DeMattei and Amy Tan for Richard Ford their major contribution to the Community Sounds of Summer 2008: Music Heard in the Office . .22 of Writers Endowment Blair Fuller Screenwriting Participant Profile: Jeffrey Brown . .23 Diana Fuller Barbara Hall Screenwriting Staff News . -
{Read} {PDF EPUB} ~Download California by Edan Lepucki the Book We're Talking About: 'California' by Edan Lepucki
{Read} {PDF EPUB} ~download California by Edan Lepucki The Book We're Talking About: 'California' By Edan Lepucki. What we think: “There is something uneasy in the Los Angeles air this afternoon, some unnatural stillness, some tension,” Joan Didion wrote in “Los Angeles Notebook,” an essay using the Santa Ana phenomenon as a metaphor for California’s apocalyptic state. She continues, “It is hard for people who have not lived in Los Angeles to realize how radically the Santa Ana figures in the local imagination. The city burning is Los Angeles's deepest image of itself.” She quotes Nathaniel West and Raymond Carver to accentuate her point, which is: California is the ideal setting for a story about the end of the world. Edan Lepucki must’ve agreed, as she chose to set her debut novel there. You might’ve heard about California from Stephen Colbert. It publishes with Little, Brown next week, an imprint under the Hachette umbrella, and thus was swept up in the most recent Amazon ruckus. Colbert’s book, too, was a victim of Amazon’s decision to remove Hachette titles from their site, so he’s taken it upon himself to encourage viewers to pick up Lepucki’s title -- a dystopian romp through a suddenly rural California -- at an independent bookstore. The story opens with Cal and Frida, a couple that has chosen to flee Los Angeles, one of many American cities that has fallen to shambles due to a sudden oil crisis and a slew of global warming-related natural disasters. As a result, the very wealthy have migrated to cloistered “Communities,” where they have highly coveted Internet access, among other luxuries. -
Viet Thanh Nguyen CV 2021 Public
VIET THANH NGUYEN • curriculum vitae University of Southern California Department of English Taper Hall of Humanities 448 3501 Trousdale Parkway Los Angeles, CA 90089-0354 213.740.3746 • [email protected] USC Faculty Website Personal website: vietnguyen.info ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE | employment , education, and titles University Professor, University of Southern California, 2018-present Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2018-present Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Southern California, 2017-present Professor, Departments of English and American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California, 2016-present Aerol Arnold Chair of English, University of Southern California, July 2016-present Interim Chair, Department of American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California, 2015-2016 Associate Professor, Departments of English and American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California, 2003-2016 Assistant Professor, Department of English and Program in American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California, 1997-2003 Ph.D., English, University of California, Berkeley, 1997 B.A., English, highest honors, University of California, Berkeley, 1992 B.A., Ethnic Studies, highest honors, University of California, Berkeley, 1992 PUBLICATIONS | books in progress Seek, Memory, under contract with Grove/Atlantic, delivery in 2021. UK edition, Corsair. The Committed (novel), under contract with Grove/Atlantic, forthcoming March 2021, excerpts in Ploughshares and Freeman’s. Foreign rights: 1. Hayakawa (Japanese) 2. Karl Blessing (German) 3. Alfaguara/Companhia das Lettras (Brazilian) 4. Belfond (French) 2/72 NGUYEN • curriculum vitae, 1/1/2021 5. Neri Pozza (Italian) 6. Elsinore (Portuguese) 7. Uitgeverij Marmer (Dutch) 8. Utopia (Greek) 9. ANA (Taiwan) 10. Planeta/Seix Barral (Spanish) 11. Empuries (Catalan) 12. Tranan (Swedish) Reviews: 1. -
Kevin Richard Kaiser
VARIABLE KINDNESS Posthumanist Ethics in the Fiction of George Saunders Kevin Richard Kaiser TESI DOCTORAL UPF / 2018 DIRECTOR DE LA TESI Dr. Pere Gifra Adroher DEPARTAMENT D’HUMANITATS A tots els animals. En memòria de l'Spencer. iii Agraïments Primer i abans que res, gràcies a la UPF per acceptar-me en el programa de doctorat. També, gràcies al Dr. Pere Gifra per la seva orientació, suggeriments i suport en aquest projecte. El procés d'escriure aquesta tesi hauria estat molt menys viable sense la seva ajuda. Igualment, sense l'ajuda de l'Ángels Bertran, navegar a través dels processos administratius del doctorat hauria estat molt més confús. En totes les consultes que li he fet, George Saunders, com sempre, ha estat d'allò més generós, malgrat la seva creixent fama. Dos petonets a cadascun dels meus amics de Barcelona—la Jésica i en David, la Renata i en Joan, la Laure i l’Enric—amb qui vaig beure molt de Vichy Catalan i herba mate. No hauria pogut acabar aquesta tesi sense la paciència i suport de l’Angela, que em va aportar una altra perspectiva. També, m’agradaria agrair el suport dels meus pares, que hi han sacrificat molt i han fet tot això possible. Finalment, vull mostrar també el agraïment als meus mestres no humans, que inclouen en Ponyboy, en Buddy, i la Friede i tots els que viuen al Zoo de Barcelona. Que algun dia puguin viure més lliurement! v Abstract This thesis examines the fiction of contemporary American author George Saunders in terms of how it presents situations applicable to the chief notions of posthumanist ethics and how these conceptions of ethics concern nonhuman animals, which are prevalent in his writing. -
Omnium Gatherum & Newsletter
2013-2014 Issue 18 omnium gatherum & newsletter ~ i~ COMMUNITY OF WRITERS AT SQUAW VALLEY GOT NEWS? Do you have news you would OMNIUM GATHERUM & NEWSLETTER 2013-14, Issue 18 like us to include in the next newsletter? The Omnium is published once a year. We print Community of Writers at Squaw Valley publishing credits, awards and similar new A Non-Profit Corporation #629182 writing-related achievements, and also include P.O. Box 1416, Nevada City, CA 95959 births. News should be from the past year only. E-mail: [email protected] Visit www.squawvalleywriters.org for more www.squawvalleywriters.org information and deadlines. Please note: We are not able to fact-check the BOARD OF DIRECTORS submitted news. We apologize if any incorrect President James Naify information is published. Vice President Joanne Meschery Secretary Jan Buscho NOTABLE ALUMNI: Visit our Notable Alumni Financial OfficerBurnett Miller pages and learn how to nominate yourself or Eddy Ancinas a friend: René Ancinas http://squawvalleywriters.org/ Ruth Blank NotableAlumniScreen.html Jan Buscho http://squawvalleywriters.org/ Max Byrd NotableAlumniWriters.html Alan Cheuse http://squawvalleywriters.org/ Nancy Cushing NotableAlumniPoets.html Diana Fuller Michelle Latiolais ABOUT OUR ADVERTISERS The ads which ap- Edwina Leggett pear in this issue represent the work of Com- Lester Graves Lennon munity of Writers staff and participants. These Carlin Naify ads help to defray the cost of the newsletter. Jason Roberts If you have a recent or forthcoming book, Christopher