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Here in Ithaca, summer doesn’t necessarily mean that there’s a lack of interesting events to attend — despite the fact that we are very much a college town. There have been all kinds of neat special events that we’ve featured in the last couple of weeks, both in and outside college campuses. Lately, the Scottish […]

This week’s cover of the Ithaca Times is a fascinating profile of two writers in residence currently at Cornell (but not for much longer), Mark Doty and Paul Lisicky. Along with novelist Denis Johnson, the three of them have lived in Ithaca for the semester, taught courses at Cornell, and worked on their own […]

Last Thursday, lauded cartoonist and graphic novelist Alison Bechdel spoke at Cornell as part of the English Dept’s Spring Reading Series. In preparation of the event, Bob Proehl interviewed Bechdel, the results of which can be found in an article in this week’s Ithaca Times.
He has also posted his complete interview with Bechdel on his […]

We go to press this afternoon, so I completely swamped with work, but I did want to mention this exciting reading tonight (apologies in advance for my unabashed reproduction of the press release). Enjoy!
>>>The Ithaca College Department of Writing and School of Humanities and Sciences will welcome Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa to campus […]

Three extremely distinguished and accomplished writers will read from their works tonight at the Schwartz Auditorium in Rockefeller Hall on the Cornell Campus. The talk is part of the English Dept’s 2008 Spring Reading Series (the same series that has brought Sandra Cisneros, Willie Perdomo, and Salman Rushdie to the Cornell podium), and all three […]