Inside the Writers House: Brian Evenson

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Monday, November 11, 2024
12:10 PM - 1:10 PM
On Zoom
Event Type: Inside The Writers House

Give a warm welcome to Brian Evenson,  author of a dozen books of fiction, most recently the story collection A Collapse of Horses (Coffee House Press 2016) and the novella The Warren (Tor.com 2016). He has also recently published Windeye (Coffee House Press 2012) and Immobility (Tor 2012), both of

Author Talk: Sanaë Lemoine with Adam Dalva

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Thursday, October 24, 2024
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Barnes & Noble Bookstore, 100 Somerset St, Second Floor
Event Type: Other
Writers House Assistant Professor Adam Dalva will host writer Sanaë Lemoine  for a reading and conversation.  Sanaë Lemoine is a novelist and cookbook writer. She is the author of the novel The Margot Affair, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and the co-author of the cookbooks Hot Sheet and Make

Writers at Rutgers Reading Series

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Wednesday, October 23, 2024
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Rutgers Student Center, Multipurpose Room, 126 College Avenue
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Save the date for the fall Writers at Rutgers Reading Series featuring renowned poets, novelists, essayists, and short story writers. All readings include a Q&A with the writer, book signing, and light refreshments.  Since 1990, Writers at Rutgers has sponsored readings by distinguished writers such as Adrienne Rich, Miguel Algarin,

Inside the Writers House: TBD

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Friday, October 18, 2024
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
On Zoom
Event Type: Inside The Writers House
"Inside the Writers House" invites you into the homes, offices, and writing rooms of acclaimed authors, providing an inside eye on their working life and a level of intimacy often lacking in more formal settings. An obvious reference to the televised Actor's Studio seminar, "Writers House" interviews are likewise craft

Meg Wolitzer

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Wednesday, October 9, 2024
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Rutgers Student Center, Multipurpose Room, 126 College Avenue
Event Type: Writers At Rutgers Reading Series

Save the date for the fall Writers at Rutgers Reading Series featuring the esteemed novelist, Meg Wolitzer.  Wolitzer is the New York Times–bestselling author of The Interestings, The Uncoupling, The Ten-Year Nap, The Female Persuasion, The Position, The Wife, and Sleepwalking. She is also the author of the young adult novel

Inside the Writers House: Lev Grossman

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Tuesday, October 8, 2024
5:40 PM - 6:40 PM
On Zoom
Event Type: Inside The Writers House
Join us at 5:40 PM, Tues. Oct 8 for the next installment of Inside the Writers House, when Writers House instructor Alex Dawson talks with acclaimed fantasy author Lev Grossman (The Bright Sword), joining us via Zoom from Australia. Named a "Best Summer Read" by virtually every magazine, newspaper, and

Writers from Rutgers featuring Aimee LaBrie

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Tuesday, October 8, 2024
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Rutgers Barnes and Noble, Second Floor
Event Type: Writers From Rutgers
Join us for a reading and conversation with Writers House lecturer, Aimee LaBrie, from her new, award-winning short story collection, Rage & Other Cages.  The conversation will be led by Adam Dalva, Assistant Professor for Writers House.  Aimee LaBrie’s short stories have appeared in The Minnesota Review, Iron Horse Literary Review,

Inside the Writers House: Sophie White

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Friday, October 4, 2024
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
TBD
Event Type: Inside The Writers House
In the mood for a ghost story? Ireland has as many ghosts as it does sheep. Everybody knows someone who has seen one, even if they haven't seen one themselves. Join us at 10:30 AM, Fri. Oct 4 (2nd Fl, RU B&N) for the LIVE! kickoff of the Fall 2024 sequence

Aimee LaBrie in Conversation with Joyce Carol Oates

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Wednesday, September 25, 2024
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
122 Nassau Street Princeton, NJ 08542
Event Type: Other
Come out to Labyrinth Books in Princeton for a conversation about writing, inspiration, and process with award-winning author, Joyce Carol Oates, and shot story writer, Aimee LaBrie. Both Oates and LaBrie teach undergraduate creative writing at Rutgers Writers House, and Oates also teaches at Princeton University and NYU.   In her

Spring 2024 Spring Creativity Showcase

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Wednesday, April 24, 2024
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Murray Hall, Room 302
Event Type: Student Showcase
All friends, family, faculty and staff are invited to hear the winners of the Spring Creativity Showcase read their work. Come support your peers as they share their award-winning works in poetry, fiction, non-fiction, plays, and multimedia composition. Light snacks and beverages will be served. Family and friends can reserve

Conversation & Book Signing with John Manuel Arias, hosted by Adam Dalva

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Tuesday, April 16, 2024
3:50 PM - 5:00 PM
Barnes and Noble Bookstores, 100 Somerset Street, New Brunswick, Second Floor
Event Type: Other
    Join us for a conversation and book signing wit noted author, John Manuel Arias, led by Adam Dalva, Assistant Teaching Professor for Writers House at Rutgers.  John Manuel Arias is a queer, Costa Rican American poet and writer, and the National Bestselling Author of Where There Was Fire,

Writers at Rutgers featuring Gabrielle Calvocoressi

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Tuesday, April 9, 2024
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
College Avenue Student Center, Multipurpose Room
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Writers at Rutgers is a series that creates the opportunity for exchange between well-known writers of diverse background and Rutgers students, faculty, and the general public. The event includes an author reading, Q&A session, book sale and signing, and catered reception. Free to attend. Register for free parking here. Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the

Mark Doty with guests Jericho Brown, Gabrielle Calvocoressi & Tracy K. Smith

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Tuesday, April 9, 2024
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
College Avenue Student Center, Multipurpose Room
Event Type: Writers At Rutgers Reading Series

Writers at Rutgers is a series that creates the opportunity for exchange between well-known writers of diverse backgrounds and Rutgers students, faculty, and the general public. The event includes an author reading, Q&A session, book sale and signing, and catered reception. Free to attend. Register for free parking here. On Tuesday,

Paradise Eclipsed - A Marathon Reading of Milton's Paradise Lost

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Monday, April 8, 2024
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Voorhees Mall
Event Type: Other

Reading with Writers House Faculty Poets

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Monday, April 1, 2024
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Barnes and Noble Bookstore, Second Floor, 100 Somerset Street, New Brunswick, Second Floor
Event Type: Writers From Rutgers
LESLIEANN HOBAYAN is a Filipina-American poet, essayist, activist mom, and host of Spiritual Grit, a podcast at the intersection of spirituality and activism. She is the author of the chapbook, Divorce Papers: A Slow Burn (Finishing Line Press, 2023) Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Aster(ix) Journal, The Grief

Hafizah Augustus Geter

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Wednesday, March 27, 2024
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
College Avenue Student Center, Multipurpose Room
Event Type: Writers At Rutgers Reading Series

Writers at Rutgers is a series that creates the opportunity for exchange between well-known writers of diverse background and Rutgers students, faculty, and the general public. The event includes an author reading, Q&A session, book sale and signing, and catered reception. Free to attend. Register for free parking here.  Hafizah Augustus

Conversation and Book Signing with Zain Khalid

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
3:50 PM - 5:00 PM
Barnes and Noble Bookstore, Second Floor, 100 Somerset Street, New Brunswick, Second Floor
Event Type: Other
Join us for a literary conversation with novels Zain Khalid hosted by Rutgers Assistant Teaching Professor, Adam Dalva.  Zain Khalid's first novel, Brother Alive, won the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize for best first book in any genre. He also

Victor LaValle

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Wednesday, February 28, 2024
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
College Avenue Student Center, Multipurpose Room
Event Type: Writers At Rutgers Reading Series

Writers at Rutgers is a series that creates the opportunity for exchange between well-known writers of diverse background and Rutgers students, faculty, and the general public. The event includes an author reading, Q&A session, book sale and signing, and catered reception. Free to attend. Register for free parking here. Victor LaValle is

Angie Cruz

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Wednesday, November 29, 2023
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
College Avenue Student Center, Multipurpose Room
Event Type: Writers At Rutgers Reading Series

Writers at Rutgers is a series that creates the opportunity for exchange between well-known writers of diverse background and Rutgers students, faculty, and the general public. The event includes an author reading, Q&A session, book sale and signing, and catered reception. Free to attend. Register for free parking here. Angie Cruz is

Rutgers Book Initiative Launch Party

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Tuesday, November 7, 2023
5:15 PM - 7:45 PM
309 Murray Hall, 510 George St, New Brunswick
Event Type: Other
The Rutgers Book Initiative invites you to a launch party for our new humanities makerspace, THE SCARLET LETTERPRESS 5:15 PM Roundtable on media history through/as making: Ryan Cordell, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Christy Potroff, Olivia Moy, Katherine Ruffin 6:45 PM Print your own broadside of a poem by Professor Evie Shockley All