Guggenheim and NEA recipient Lance Olsen will read from his new novel, Always Crashing in the Same Car.
“Always Crashing in the Same Car presents a phantasmagorical mosaic of facts and fantasies concerning the life and art of David Bowie, entirely appropriate to its subject, for whom the mask always melted into the face and vice versa. Yet the subject also demanded a meditation on memory, loss, and love; on the projection of a writer’s self through their chosen idols; on the artist’s attempt to...

This spring, the Stanley Reads book group features What Napoleon Could Not Do, the debut novel of Derek (DK) Nnuro, the museum’s curator of special projects. The club will meet three times over the spring semester to discuss the novel and discover how objects in the Homecoming exhibition connect with themes in the book. Nnuro will also be on hand to answer questions about the novel and engage participants in craft discussions. We encourage budding writers—especially writers of fiction—to join us...

Please join us for a special reading in honor of the posthumous publication of James Alan McPherson’s On Becoming an American Writer: Essays & Nonfiction, recently published by Godine. Encompassing themes of race, education, fame, law, and America’s past and future, these essays are McPherson at his most prescient and invaluable. James Alan McPherson was the first Black author to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and he was the recipient of a MacArthur genius grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship...

The Writers' Workshop presents a Q & A session with Ida Beam Visiting Lecturer, Jericho Brown.

From https://www.jerichobrown.com/:

"Jericho Brown is author of the The Tradition (Copper Canyon 2019), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and he is the winner of the Whiting Award. Brown’s first book, Please (New Issues 2008), won the...