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American businessman Philip Murphy, the former United States Ambassador to Germany, will deliver the Hamilton College Commencement address on Sunday, May 24, at 10:30 a.m., in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House.
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D.T. Max, a staff writer for The New Yorker, recently visited Hamilton to discuss his most recent work, a biography of David Foster Wallace. Calling his book “a biography” here is sort of disingenuous: Max’s work, titled Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace, remains the only full-length biography of the writer since Wallace’s unfortunate death in 2008.
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Hamilton hosted a panel of three internationally acclaimed poets Saturday for a discussion of recent issues surrounding freedom of speech, both within the USA and abroad. Part of the International Writers Festival, the panel was sponsored by the Department of English and Creative Writing and included Chris Abani, Vijay Seshadri and Valzhyna Mort.
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A lecture by D.T. Max, an author and staff writer at The New Yorker, has been rescheduled for Monday, March 2, at 4:10 p.m., in Dwight Lounge, Bristol Center. The lecture, titled “Consider the Writer: The Life of David Foster Wallace,” is free and open to the public. His previously scheduled visit in February was cancelled due to weather.
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Hamilton College will host an International Writers Festival with appearances by novelist/poet Chris Abani, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Vijay Seshadri and Valzhyna Mort on Friday, Feb. 27, and Saturday, Feb. 28, on campus. All events are free and open to the public.
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Professor of English and Creative Writing Naomi Guttman published three poems in the Winter 2014 edition of "The Malahat Review" and two poems in the December 2014 edition of "The Literary Review of Canada."
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The Monday, Feb. 9 reading and Tuesday talk by The New Yorker author and staff writer D.T. Max have been cancelled due to the weather in the Northeast. His visit will be rescheduled for a later date.
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The reading by poet Patrick Lawler, writer-in-residence at LeMoyne College, scheduled for Monday, Feb. 2, has been cancelled due to the weather. It will be rescheduled at a later date.
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Three students in Professor of English and Creative Writing Doran Larson’s “Booked: Prison Writing” course this fall held a campus book drive to benefit prisoners at a New York State correctional facility.
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Hamilton’s English and Creative Writing Fall 2014 Reading Series presents events with poets Sarah Harwell and Gary Leising on Thursday, Dec. 4. Harwell will discuss MFA programs and getting published at a coffee hour at 4:10 p.m. at the Sadove Sun Porch. Harwell and Leising will read from their work at 8 p.m. in Dwight Lounge, Bristol Campus Center, and a reception will follow. Both events are free and open to the public.