Improvement, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.
Silber is known for her composite fiction, or novels that are linked stories. Her latest,
Secrets of Happiness, is no exception.
I recently spoke with Silber about her writing and the secrets of happiness.
Here’s our conversation:
Although she wises up much earlier than I did (in childhood, at the time of her father’s passing), this same fatalistic narcissism drives poet Diane Seuss’s latest collection,
frank: sonnets. She begins contemplating suicide, looking out over a cliff. This is an unsettling place to begin a collection of poems sonnets, no less but no matter how irreverently told, this
is a love story, one in which Seuss traces the most peculiar of companionate relationships: her own life, ruthlessly courted by death.
And what is this life? Who is Diane Seuss? Professionally, she is the author of four prior collections of poetry:
Ancestors: Alice Roberts in conversation with Adam Rutherford.
This is an online event hosted on the British Library platform. Bookers will be sent a link in advance giving access and will be able to watch at any time for 48 hours after the start time.
We often think of Britain springing from nowhere with the arrival of the Romans, but we know a huge amount about the Britons that lived here before them, from the burial sites they left behind. Their stories are told through their bones and funerary offerings, preserved in the ground for thousands of years.
In her groundbreaking new book
May 10, 2021 by Aimee Minbiole
Honorary degrees will also go to scholars in the arts, education, and sciences.
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed 81 will deliver the main address and receive an honorary degree at Dartmouth s 2021 commencement. (Photo by Tony Rinaldo)
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Annette Gordon-Reed 81, a law scholar, MacArthur Fellow, and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, will deliver the main address and receive an honorary degree at Dartmouth s 2021 commencement in Memorial Stadium, which starts at 11 a.m. on June 13. We are honored to have Annette Gordon-Reed as our commencement speaker this year, says President Philip J. Hanlon 77. With her groundbreaking scholarship, she joins a cohort of prominent honorary degree recipients whose work in the arts, economics, education, and science is transforming our world for the better.
SCC Hagan Center Diversity Series Speaker: Luis Rodriguez Spokane Community College’s Hagan Center welcomes speaker Luis Rodriguez, author of It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing, winner of a 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award, and Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A., winner of a Carl Sandburg Literary Award. Rodriguez was born and raised in El Paso, Texas, where he and his family faced poverty and dicrimination. He was a gang member and drug user by age 12 experiences he reflects on in both memoirs. By the time Rodriguez was 18, he had lost 25 friends to gang violence, drug overdoses and suicide. In addition to his memoirs, he has written books of poetry and children’s books, including América Is Her Name, and is the founder of Tía Chucha Press, which aims to publish emerging socially conscious poets. In 2014, he was appointed poet laureate of Los Angeles by Mayor Eric Garcetti.