LENOX â Outdoor performances, lectures, monthly StoryWalks for families and the return of the SculptureNow outdoor exhibit, on June 1, are the focus of the 2021 summer season at The Mount, Edith Wharton s Home.
âWe knew we wanted to do as much outdoors as possible,â said Susan Wissler, executive director at The Mount, in a release. âWe envisioned different locations throughout the estate as unique performance venues and tried to match the performances to the space, making each site-specific. We will be presenting live music on a newly built stage below the stable, hosting lectures in an open-air tent in the field at the top of the property, and using the entire estate for roving readings and performances.â
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ITHACA, NY Author and cultural critic Roxane Gay â whose writing explores feminism, race, body image, her own life, contemporary social topics and fiction â will be the Cornell Senior Convocation speaker for the 153rd graduating class, the Convocation Committee for the universityâs Class of 2021 announced May 13.
Gay will give the virtual Convocation address on Friday, May 28 at 8:30 p.m., streamed on live.alumni.cornell.edu. The live virtual Convocation address will be accessible to only Cornell students, faculty, alumni and staff. The recording will be posted on CornellCast by early June.
Following Convocation, the universityâs Commencement ceremonies will take place in four installments Saturday, May 29 and Sunday, May 30.
Nikki Dolson is the author of the novel All Things Violent and the story collection Love and Other Criminal Behavior. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Vautrin, TriQuarterly, Thuglit and other publications. Her fiction has been nominated for a Derringer and noted as distinguished in The Best American Short Stories 2016.
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In the spring of 2016, after spending over a decade my entire career at the same Boston book publishing company, I began to look for a new job. I secured an interview and showed up with a portfolio of my best marketing campaigns. “These are all for novels,” the person interviewing me commented, examining first an ad, then a postcard, then a sticker, each showcasing in some way a fictional story.
“Fiction is sort of my specialty,” I said. She replied, “We don’t publish any fiction.” Needless to say, I did not get the job.
Four years later, I left my job at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to own and operate a bookstore, where I continue to champion fiction by putting it directly into readers’ hands. While I moved on, I thought the company was in Boston to stay.