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February Events for Writers

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February Events for Writers Inside Buffalo: An African-Italian Story February 13, 2020, 5 PM East Pyne Building Room 010 The Department of French and Italian presents a film screening of Inside Buffalo followed by Q&A with director, Fred Kuwornu. Cosponsored by the Lewis Center for the Arts. Sheila Heti and Joy Harjo February 12, 2020, 7:30 PM, Donald G. Drapkin Studio Fiction writer, playwright, and journalist Sheila Heti and 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate, memoirist and musician Joy Harjo read from their work as part of the Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series. C.K. Williams Reading Series: Aaron Robertson ’17 February 21, 2020, 6:30 PM. Forum, Lewis [...]

February Events for Writersadmin2020-02-10T13:33:39-05:00

Word of the Week: perfidy (ˈpər-fə-dē)

Cate Mahoney2020-02-10T11:52:06-05:00

Word of the Week: perfidy (ˈpər-fə-dē) Definition (Noun) 1: the quality or state of being faithless or disloyal: TREACHERY 2: an act or an instance of disloyalty In Context His descriptions of the perfidy of the British élite have the ring of an insider. Sam Knight, “How Brexit Will End,” The New Yorker, Oct 30, 2019.

Word of the Week: perfidy (ˈpər-fə-dē)Cate Mahoney2020-02-10T11:52:06-05:00

A LOT of Mistakes! by Cate Mahoney

Cate Mahoney2020-03-19T11:57:11-04:00

A LOT of Mistakes! by Cate Mahoney There are times when I’m reading and I cringe. That may be for a huge variety of reasons—like I don’t understand the academic jargon of the article I’m trying to read about Walt Whitman. But in most cases, it’s when people are writing colloquially and they make mistakes that would not be obvious if they were speaking. Here is one of my favorites: “A lot” spelled as “Alot.” Hyperbole and a Half, an awesome blog written and drawn by Allie Brosh, has an excellent way to counteract the instinct to write “alot”: “The Alot is [...]

A LOT of Mistakes! by Cate MahoneyCate Mahoney2020-03-19T11:57:11-04:00

January 15 “Tell Me More” Conversation: President Emerita Shirley Tilghman

Elizabeth Durham2020-01-31T16:54:09-05:00

January 15 "Tell Me More" Conversation: President Emerita Shirley Tilghman The “Tell Me More: Humanizing Our Research” dinner conversation series kicked off on January 15 with a rousing call from Shirley Tilghman, President Emerita and Professor of Molecular Biology and Public Affairs, to “Share the Wonder of What We Do.” Arguing that “science is under assault right now,” she invited the graduate student audience into a robust discussion of how best to manage the “responsibility to articulate your research” to an increasing, and increasingly heterogeneous, number of publics. “Making the case for what we do,” she emphasized, “is immensely important,” so [...]

January 15 “Tell Me More” Conversation: President Emerita Shirley TilghmanElizabeth Durham2020-01-31T16:54:09-05:00

New University Administrative Fellow: Elizabeth Durham

Elizabeth Durham2020-01-29T15:43:12-05:00

New University Administrative Fellow: Elizabeth Durham My parents are journalists. They prize clear, concise writing and disdain jargon. Years ago, flush with excitement, I called them to say that I had been admitted for a PhD in anthropology at Princeton University. For a while, they cooed and congratulated me, but then my mother, who is delightfully incapable of being earnest for too long, laughed despite herself. “Academia’s really great,” she chuckled, “if you want to become a professional bad writer.” That joke stayed with me. It came with me when I attended the Princeton-Fung Forum on Ebola in Dublin, Ireland in [...]

New University Administrative Fellow: Elizabeth DurhamElizabeth Durham2020-01-29T15:43:12-05:00

Book of the Month: Daily Rituals

Cate Mahoney2020-01-09T11:38:59-05:00

Book of the Month: Daily Rituals: How Artists Work edited by Mason Currey (2013) Critical Evaluation The Onion published an essay recently called "Find The Thing You're Most Passionate About, Then Do It On Nights And Weekends For The Rest Of Your Life." The piece was satire, but it's how many of us respond to the question Mason Currey raises in his entertaining new book, Daily Rituals: How Artists Work. "How do you do meaningful creative work," he wonders, "while also earning a living?" A product of the author's now-defunct blog, Daily Routines, Daily Rituals assembles the regimens of 161 assorted [...]

Book of the Month: Daily RitualsCate Mahoney2020-01-09T11:38:59-05:00

Book of the Month: Educated by Tara Westover (2018)

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Book of the Month: Educated by Tara Westover (2018) Critical Evaluation "This story, remarkable as it is, might be merely another entry in the subgenre of extreme American life, were it not for the uncommon perceptiveness of the person telling it. Westover examines her childhood with unsparing clarity, and, more startlingly, with curiosity and love, even for those who have seriously failed or wronged her. In part, this is a book about being a stranger in a strange land; Westover, adrift at university, can’t help but miss her mountain home. But her deeper subject is memory. Westover is careful to note [...]

Book of the Month: Educated by Tara Westover (2018)admin2020-05-12T12:52:12-04:00

Soundtracks Talk

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Maria LoBiondo, Storyteller Soundtracks Talk: Scheherazade and tales from The Thousand and One Nights Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020, 7:00pm Princeton Public Library The exotic tales in The Thousand and One Nights, also known as the Arabian Nights, caused a sensation when first translated for Western audiences—and captivated composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The collection inspired him to compose his famous work Scheherazade, conjuring the spellbinder whose tales of adventure, heartbreak, and romance beguiled a vengeful king into sparing her life and the lives of her imaginary kingdom’s women. Storyteller Maria LoBiondo, in a program designed to be of interest to adult audiences, will present [...]

Soundtracks Talkadmin2020-03-03T15:51:09-05:00

Lost and Found: The Moth in Princeton

admin2019-12-10T11:05:17-05:00

The Power of Stories: The Moth at Princeton by Andrea La Bella On November 22, 2019, members of Princeton Writes' Writing Space group gathered at the McCarter Theater to enjoy the Princeton Public library production of The Moth Mainstage: Lost and Found: The Moth in Princeton. In the lead up to this event, the McCarter Theater and the Princeton Public Library co-sponsored the Story Lounge, hosted by the No Dominion Theater Company. Community members were invited to tell a story, and two of the Princeton Writes Writing Space group, Andrea La Bella and Jeanne Jackson DeVoe, were chosen to share their [...]

Lost and Found: The Moth in Princetonadmin2019-12-10T11:05:17-05:00

Coding is Writing by Rebecca Sutton Koeser

John Weeren2019-12-03T12:07:34-05:00

Coding is Writing by Rebecca Sutton Koeser Rebecca Sutton Koeser is the Lead Developer at Princeton’s Center for Digital Humanities, designing and building customized software in the service of scholarly projects such as the Princeton Prosody Archive and the Shakespeare and Company Project. Trained in both English literature and computer science, she is well positioned to explore the nexus of coding and writing. I read an article years ago comparing writing software to creative writing. The author’s takeaway was that, as with writing, some people will be more gifted than others. As someone interested in both literature and computers, the idea [...]

Coding is Writing by Rebecca Sutton Koeser John Weeren2019-12-03T12:07:34-05:00

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