TEDx Speaker, HuffPost Columnist and Audie-Award Nominated Author Discusses PTSD and Resilience at Mercy College Free and open to the general public on March 3rd, 2-3pm. The inspirational survivor comes to campus... Read more »
This month’s selection: “Ariel Samson: Freelance Rabbi” by MaNishtana Ariel Samson is just your run of the mill anomaly: a 20-something black Orthodox Jewish rabbi looking for love, figuring out life, and... Read more »
This month’s selection: “Button Man” by Andrew Gross “…a stirring story of a Jewish family brought together in the dawn of the women’s garment business and torn apart by the birth of... Read more »
This month’s selection: Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner Toby Fleishman is a hepatologist in his forties who is undergoing a bitter divorce from his wife, Rachel. One day she leaves... Read more »
Hemingway rewrote the ending of A Farewell to Arms39 times. Asked what had stumped him, he replied, “Getting the words right.” Is that what it takes to be a great writer? Was... Read more »
As a response to a work of visual art, the ekphrastic poem inevitably goes far beyond description and often leads poet and reader into all sorts of associations, insights, memories, feelings, revelations.... Read more »
This is a one-day, 4 hour intensive class that meets Saturday November 16th 12:30-4:30. Please register at https://www.writerscenter.org/calendar/socialjustice/ At one point in my writing mostly autobiographical poetry and essays/memoir, I got some... Read more »
This month’s selection: “My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner” by Meir Shalev Hilarious and touching, Grandma Tonia and her regulations come richly to life in a narrative that circles around... Read more »
Temple Beth Abraham’s Evening Book Two Graphic Novels: “A Contract with God: And Other Tenement Stories” by Will Eisner Originally published in 1978, the book is described as a collection of four... Read more »
Join Manhattanville College School of Education as they welcome Jane Yolen, author of Owl Moon, and her original book team to speak at the West Room in Reid Castle. In 1988, Owl... Read more »