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In Christina Stead’s The Little Hotel , the guests cannot escape each other. They are like people sealed in a pandemic pod. Set after the Second World War, the multinational set of characters in this novel don’t know what changed world will await them when they creep out of their “fourth class” Swiss hotel by Lake Geneva. For some of them, the scale of the unknowns is so paralyzing they choose to hole up for years to avoid finding out. Stead wrests great psychological insight from the g...

Author’s work explores the intricacies of immigration Author Patricia Engel. By Barbara Gutierrez 03-11-2021 Associate Professor Patricia Engel’s latest book, “Infinite Country,” was picked as the March selection by Reese Witherspoon for her reading community, Reese’s Book Club. As she was growing up, Patricia Engel remembers her paternal grandmother Lucía, the mother of nine children, writing everyday volumes and volumes of stories, poetry, and long letters to her family. Luc...

5:59 Welcome back to Inside The Blanket Fort. This week we find out more about an upcoming podcast from Blanket Fort Radio Theater that is currently getting ready for production and need some help from listeners. Plus, check out the latest episode of the new podcast of "Survived by One" by Robert Hanlon and Tom Odle. This week on Inside The Blanket Fort we learn about an upcoming podcast from Blanket Fort Radio Theater that is prepping for production and needs some assistance from listeners. ...

22:40 In Episode 2 of "Survived by One" from Blanket Fort Radio Theater, Tom Odle recalls the abuse and isolation he experienced while growing up. In Episode 2 of "Survived by One: The Life and Mind of a Family Mass Murderer," by Robert Hanlon and Tom Odle, Tom recalls the abuse and isolation he experienced while growing up. Blanket Fort Radio Theater is a storytelling initative of SIU Press in collaboration with the SIU Creative Writing Program and WSIU Radio. Tags: 

Next up is Laura Hunsberger. Laura was the Member Services Fellow from 2010 - 2012. What is your job title and role now? Part-Time SAHM/Part-Time Library Assistant in the Reference Department for Lexington County Public Library. Since 2018 Ive been able to stay home with my young children and work part-time at the local library. My role in the Reference Department includes community outreach, planning programs for adults, and helping library patrons with computer and other tech literacy. What...

Community Submitted “Words in Action: Storytelling, Social Justice and Queer Culture” will be hosted online by New College of Florida March 17-19. The inaugural festival rethinks the role of the arts in society by featuring the teaching, production and circulation of writing as a whole social process within the larger context of work and social activism. Featuring post-punk performance poet and activist Michelle Tea and Cuban-American artist, writer, activist and musician Cristy Roads, t...

6:00 Join us this week for a special edition of Inside The Blanket Fort and check out the debut podcast of "Survived by One: The Life and Mind of a Family Mass Murderer" by Robert Hanlon and Thomas Odle from Blanket Fort Radio Theater. Join us this week for a special edition of Inside The Blanket Fort.  Also, check out the debut podcast of "Survivied by One: The Life and Mind of a Family Mass Murderer" by Robert Hanlon and Thomas Odle from Blanket Fort Radio Theater and SIU Press. Blanket For...

Current U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, the first Native American to hold the position, will read her poems at an event hosted by the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library on Saturday, March 20, at 4 p.m. Part of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Reading Series, this normally large in-person event will be held online due to ongoing COVID-19 restrictions. Attendees are asked to register here to receive a viewing link prior to the event, which is open to the public at no char...

Books: Heres looking at Casablanca, with author Leslie Epstein By Tom Meek This Monday, Leslie Epstein the longtime Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Boston University, debuts his latest work of fiction, "Hill of Beans: A Novel of War and Celluloid," which like several of Epsteins books weaves history and real life characters seamlessly into the fabric of fiction with a typical tight focus on the evils of the Holocaust and its repercussions across time.  Epst...

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick  is a collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, racism and sexism that reflect African American folk culture. Brought together for the first time in one volume, the book includes eight of Hurston’s "lost" Harlem stories, which were found in forgotten periodicals and archives. These stories challenge conceptions of Hurston as an author of rural fiction and include gems that flash with her biting, satirical humor, as well a...