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Meet Cate Mahoney

Stephanie Whetstone2018-09-20T10:35:59-04:00

Hello, All! My name is Cate Mahoney, and I’m a graduate student here in the English department at Princeton. I’m also happy to announce that I’m a University Administrative Fellow for Princeton Writes this year! It’s nice to meet you, Internet. I study poetry and poetics and have been working for the past few years on a dissertation focusing on certain American poets in the 19th and 20th centuries. If I were to pick my two poetry ambassadors, they would be Emily Dickinson and Frank O’Hara. Born about a century apart, they are wildly different in their style but are [...]

Meet Cate MahoneyStephanie Whetstone2018-09-20T10:35:59-04:00

Key Dates and Guidelines, 2018-2019 Celebration of Student Writing

Stephanie Whetstone2018-09-19T11:13:25-04:00

Key Dates and Guidelines 2018-2019 Celebration of Student Writing Friday, October 26: Deadline for members of the Editorial Board to confirm their participation by nominating a single piece of undergraduate writing of any genre that is both superbly crafted and representative of the work published or performed by their organizations in 2018. Nominations should be emailed in the form of Microsoft Word attachments to pwrites@princeton.edu. Nominations will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis until nine have been received, which is all we can accommodate in a 90-minute showcase. Members of the Editorial Board will be notified when this number has [...]

Key Dates and Guidelines, 2018-2019 Celebration of Student WritingStephanie Whetstone2018-09-19T11:13:25-04:00

Events for Writers- September/October 2018

Stephanie Whetstone2018-09-10T17:04:07-04:00

Seuls en Scène 2018 presents Harlem Quartet September 21, 2018 at 7 PM, September 23, 2018 at 8 PM Whitman College Class of 1970 Theater Duration: 90 minutes.Performed in French with English subtitles Tickets are free but must be reserved at tickets.princeton.edu Hall Montana remembers, recounts and retraces the life of his family and friends, who are part of Harlem’s African-American community in the 1950s and 1960s. Baldwin’s sensual writing style is punctuated by poignant gospel lyrics that take audiences to the heart of Harlem, a world of love, religious fervor and suffering. Harlem Quartet is a story on human destiny based [...]

Events for Writers- September/October 2018Stephanie Whetstone2018-09-10T17:04:07-04:00

2018-2019 GradSpeak Series Begins

Stephanie Whetstone2018-09-10T16:34:18-04:00

Public Speaking Workshop Series Dillon Court East Are you serious about improving your public speaking and presentation skills? GradSpeak is a monthly workshop series designed to help enhance graduate students' public speaking skills in an encouraging and supportive environment. Each session will have an impromptu topic (e.g. your research in a nutshell, someone who inspires you) and will focus on a technical skill such as body language, diction, or eye contact with the audience. Workshops are co-sponsored by the Graduate School and PrincetonWrites. Space is limited to 10 graduate students. To join the cohort, please RSVP to pwrites@princeton.edu. Intro to [...]

2018-2019 GradSpeak Series BeginsStephanie Whetstone2018-09-10T16:34:18-04:00

Writing Space Meetings Planned for the Year

Stephanie Whetstone2018-09-10T14:05:39-04:00

To better accommodate the schedules of participants, Writing Space will alternate the times of its fall semester meetings. Please join us in Room E08, Dillon Court East, coming when you can, and leaving when you must. Tuesday, September 11, 2018, 4:30-6:00 p.m. Tuesday, October 9, 2018, 12:00-1:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 13, 2018, 4:30-6:00 p.m. Tuesday, December 11, 2018, 12:00-1:30 p.m. Tuesday, January 8, 2019, 4:30-6:00 p.m.

Writing Space Meetings Planned for the YearStephanie Whetstone2018-09-10T14:05:39-04:00

An American Marriage (2018) by Tayari Jones

Stephanie Whetstone2018-09-01T09:00:04-04:00

Critical Evaluation "Tayari Jones’s wise and compassionate new novel, “An American Marriage,” tells us a story we think we know. Roy, a young black man, is tried and wrongly convicted of rape while his wife, Celestial, waits for his return. But Jones’s story isn’t the one we are expecting, a courtroom drama or an examination of the prison-industrial complex; instead, it is a clear vision of the quiet devastation of a family. The novel focuses on the failed hopes of romantic love, disapproving in-laws, flawed families of origin, and the question of life with or without children that all married couples [...]

An American Marriage (2018) by Tayari JonesStephanie Whetstone2018-09-01T09:00:04-04:00

One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel García Márquez

Stephanie Whetstone2018-08-01T09:00:16-04:00

Critical Assessment "We live in an age of invented, alternate worlds. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, Rowling’s Hogwarts, the dystopic universe of 'The Hunger Games,' the places where vampires and zombies prowl: These places are having their day. Yet in spite of the vogue for fantasy fiction, in the finest of literature’s fictional microcosms there is more truth than fantasy. In William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha, R. K. Narayan’s Malgudi and, yes, the Macondo of Gabriel García Márquez, imagination is used to enrich reality, not to escape from it." Salman Rushdie, "Magic in the Service of Truth," The New York Times, April 21, 2014 First Excerpt [...]

One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel García MárquezStephanie Whetstone2018-08-01T09:00:16-04:00

Writing at Its Best by Anita Kline

Stephanie Whetstone2020-03-19T12:43:48-04:00

Writing at Its Best by Anita Kline This is the latest post in our series of reflections on the nature of "good writing." Anita Kline, manager of the Center for the Study of Religion, is intrigued by the creative potential of homonyms -- words that are pronounced the same way but have different meanings. "Such vulnerable, messy terrain," she writes, "is where new writing ideas roam, as well as some considerable discomfort, to be sure." Thinking about what makes good writing and searching for fruitful writing ideas make me think of my two-year-old granddaughter, Eloise, not only because, well, most things do these days, but [...]

Writing at Its Best by Anita KlineStephanie Whetstone2020-03-19T12:43:48-04:00

charlatan (shär-lə-tən)

Stephanie Whetstone2018-07-16T09:00:15-04:00

Definition (Noun)1 quack 2 one making usually showy pretenses to knowledge or ability : fraud, faker In Context "Don’t let the egomaniac charlatans on internet umbrella forums tell you otherwise: there’s no such thing as a perfect umbrella." — Andrew Goble, GQ, "The Best Umbrellas Are Tough Enough for Downpours and Cheap Enough to Lose Without Crying," 2 May 2018

charlatan (shär-lə-tən)Stephanie Whetstone2018-07-16T09:00:15-04:00

Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process (2017) by John McPhee

Stephanie Whetstone2018-07-01T08:00:16-04:00

Critical Evaluation "It’s the last three chapters, 'Checkpoints,''Draft No. 4' and 'Omission,' that will be assigned and reassigned by grateful writing teachers. Perhaps the most generous passages in this generous book are in these final chapters: letters to the student of a fellow writing teacher, Anne Fadiman (whose yearly seminar at Yale was endowed by a former student in honor of Zinsser), and to Martha and Jenny, two of his four daughters, now both professional writers: 'Blurt out, heave out, babble out something — anything — as a first draft.... As you work it over and alter it, you begin to [...]

Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process (2017) by John McPheeStephanie Whetstone2018-07-01T08:00:16-04:00

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