Marjorie Garber's Shakespeare in Bloomsbury, was included on The Boston Globe's list of the best books of 2023. A description of her book is included below:
"The eminent Harvard scholar weaves together a meeting of three beautiful minds: Virginia Woolf, the genius of the Bloomsbury set; Shakespeare, whose words and spirit rarely strayed from the group’s consciousness; and the author herself, a gifted connector of literary dots. The result is a very palpable hit."
Homi Bhabha recently spoke to the New York Times about his curatorial work for the Hauser & Wirth exhibition "RETROaction." The show celebrates the 30th anniversary of the 1993 Biennial Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and ‘Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism,’ at the University Art Gallery (UAG), University of California, Irvine.
"RETROaction" ran from November 15, 2023 - January 27, 2024 at Hauser & Wirth, New York, 69th Street, and will open on February 27, 2024 at Hauser & Wirth,...
Senior Lecturer Paul Yoon's The Hive and the Honey was selected as one of three finalists for the Story Prize, "a $20,000 book prize awarded to the author of the short story collection named best of the year by three independent judges." The three finalists are included below:
Wednesday's Child by Yiyun Li (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Other Minds and Other Stories by Bennett Sims (Two Dollar Radio)
The Hive and the Honey by Paul Yoon (Marysue Rucci Books). ...
During a recent interview with the North Carolina Public Radio and the Embodied Podcast, Beth Blum spoke about the history of the self-help industry and its evolution.
"Louis May Alcott was heartsick when she checked into the old Hotel Bellevue in Boston. It was April 1880, and Alcott was mourning the death of her sister May, who'd died unexpectedly a few months earlier.
Alcott was by then one of the country's best-known writers, a household name following the triumph of her novel "Little Women." But that April, as if summoning simpler times, she returned to playwriting, a literary form she'd embraced in childhood, writing dramas her sisters had performed. Newly bereft and holed up at the inn on Beacon Hill, Alcott began a dramatization of... Read more about Boston Globe Discusses Vanessa Braganza's Archival Research