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...

The Writers' Workshop presents a Q & A session with Ida Beam Visiting Lecturer, Ayad Akhtar, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced and the novel Homeland Elegies.

From https://ayadakhtar.com/about:

Ayad Akhtar is a novelist and playwright. His work has been published and performed in over two dozen languages. He is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Edith Wharton Citation of Merit for Fiction, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Akhtar...

The Writers' Workshop presents a reading by Ida Beam Visiting Lecturer, Ayad Akhtar, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced and the novel Homeland Elegies.

From https://ayadakhtar.com/about:

Ayad Akhtar is a novelist and playwright. His work has been published and performed in over two dozen languages. He is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Edith Wharton Citation of Merit for Fiction, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Akhtar is the...

Poet Christian Schlegel will read from his new book of poetry.  Schlegel’s Ryman consists of three “talk poems,” in the tradition of the artist David Antin. The first talk was conducted at the author’s desk in the Hudson Valley, the second over Zoom, and the third, in two parts, while he paced a cemetery in Ithaca and a businessperson’s hotel room in Albany. Topics include the painter Robert Ryman and his contemporaries, Romantic poetry, avant-garde film, obsessive-compulsive rumination, and...