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5:59 Journey Inside The Blanket Fort as we explore a new SIU Press Book "Snake Road." Plus catch the latest podcast episode of "Survived by One" from Blanket Fort Radio Theater. This week on Inside The Blanket Fort we go behind the scenes of a new book, "Snake Road," from SIU Press that chronicles the history of snakes and their migration in southern Illinois. Plus catch the latest podcast episode of Blanket Fort Radio Theaters production of Blanket Fort Radio Theater is a storytelling ini...

ARTICLE DATEARTICLE AUTHOR AUTHOR EMAIL April 14, 2021 Hajjar Baban’s experience as an immigrant to America exists in all aspects of her work, she says, from “the words that I may obsess over to images that become motifs.” Baban – who received a bachelor’s degree in creative writing from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 2020 and is currently a Master of Fine Arts student in in the University of Virginia’s Creative Writing Program in poetry – was awarded the Paul...

In Persuasion , mourning and renewal are not separate. Jane Austen (1775–1817) finished this novel during her own last illness and it has a quality of reflection all its own. Anne Elliot, living quietly in the country, has lost people she loves, and a chance at love, but as she moves once again into a broader world—a world of friendship, imagination, and of the wide seas toward the end of the Napoleonic Wars—life begins for her for a second time. This April, when we all will be living wit...

April 12, 2021 National Book Award-winning novelist Susan Choi, MFA ’95, returns to Cornell for a virtual reading on Thursday, April 22 at 7 p.m. Registration is required for this free and open to the public event. Susan Choi Susan Choi and her work have been praised by many. Joan Didion describes her as “A natural—a writer whose intelligence and historical awareness effortlessly serve a breathtaking narrative ability.” Jennifer Egan says Choi’s work is “Deeply impressive, confident...

Novelist Susan Choi, MFA ’95, whose novel "Trust Fall" won the 2019 National Book Award, will read from her New Yorker story "Flashlight" during a virtual event on April 22.

17:39 This week on Blanket Fort Radio Theaters podcast production of "Survived by One," Tom Odle is arrested for the first time at age 16. "Survived by One: The Life and Mind of a Family Mass Murderer" by Robert Hanlon and Thomas Odle from SIU Press. This week on "Survived by One," Tom Odle is arrested for the first time at age 16.    "Survived by One: The Life and Mind of a Family Mass Murderer" by Robert Hanlon and Thomas Odle from SIU Press. Blanket Fort Radio Theater is a storytellin...

5:59 Journey back Inside The Blanket Fort this week for the latest inside look at SIU Press and the current podcast of "Survived by One" from Blanket Fort Radio Theater. Join us this week as we journey back Inside The Blanket Fort for the latest inside scoop on the goings on at SIU Press.  Plus check out the lastest podcast episode of Blanket Fort Radio Theaters production of by Robert Hanlon and Thomas Odle. Blanket Fort Radio Theater is a storytelling initaitive of SIU Press in collabora...

The faculty members, all based in Emory College of Arts and Sciences, include: Laura Otis, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of English, Department of English, won a fellowship in the field of English literature; Katherine Young, assistant professor of composition, Department of Music, won in the field of music composition; and  Tayari Jones, Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing, Department of English, won in the fiction category. “In writing, music, scholarship and ...

Ucross, the renowned artist residency program, today announced that energy executive Chad Deaton has joined its Board of Trustees. Deaton is chairman of the Board of Directors at Transocean and a director of the University of Wyoming Foundation. He has also served as co-chair of the Wyoming Governor’s Task Force for the University of Wyoming’s new Engineering and Applied Sciences Center. Deaton joins current board members Jim Nelson, Ucross board chair and former energy executive; attorney...

6:00 Journey back Inside The Blanket Fort, as we learn more about the inner workings of SIU Press. Plus check out the latest podcast installment of Blanket Fort Radio Theaters production of "Survived by One." Journey back Inside The Blank Fort, as we learn more about the inner working of SIU Press.  Plus, listen to the latest podcast installment of Blanket Fort Radio Theaters adaptation of "Survived by One," by Robert Hanlon and Thomas Odle from SIU Press. Blanket Fort Radio Theater is a ...