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Paul Yoon's The Hive and the Honey Wins The Story Prize

March 28, 2024

"As announced at a private event that was broadcast live, the winner of The Story Prize for books published in 2023 is Paul Yoon for The Hive and the Honey (Marysue Rucci Books). The other finalists were Yiyun Li for Wednesday’s Child (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) and Bennett Sims for Other Minds and Other Stories (Two Dollar Radio). The Story Prize’s $20,000 top prize is among the largest first-prize amounts of any annual U.S. book award for fiction. As runners-up, Li and Sims each received $5,000. The evening began with the...

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Teju Cole Anisfield-Wolf Book Award

Teju Cole's Tremor Wins Anisfield-Wolf Book Award

March 28, 2024

Teju Cole's Tremor was one of the winners of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the only book prize in the United States that recognizes books that focus on racism and diversity. 

A description of the novel is included below: 

"'Tremor,' a sinuous meditation on art and life, at once elegant and steely, tells the story of Tunde, an academic and artist – his specialty is photography – who hails from Nigeria, but now teaches in the US. Tunde’s is a contemplative, seemingly comfortable existence, but one haunted by unease –...

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SKB

Sol Kim-Bentley Awarded Dean's Distinction

March 28, 2024
On March 26, Dean Hoekstra announced that Sol Kim-Bentley, Interim Assistant Department Administrator and Financial Associate for the English Department, was one of the recipients of the 2024 Dean's Distinction. Congratulations, Sol!

Included below is information from Dean Hoekstra about the award:

"From organizing events that promoted a sense of community within their departments, the FAS and beyond, to tackling unexpected challenges and creating new solutions for groundbreaking research, the 2024 recipients have truly embodied the guiding principles of Dean’s... Read more about Sol Kim-Bentley Awarded Dean's Distinction
Austin Taylor

Austin Taylor Sells First Novel to Celadon

March 28, 2024

Austin Taylor, a graduate of the class of 2021 and a joint concentrator with Chemistry who wrote a summa thesis, recently sold her first novel, Notes on Infinity, to Celadon. Below is an excerpt from Paper Literary: 

"We are delighted to announce deals for Austin Taylor’s debut novel Notes on Infinity in the US and UK. Katie Greenstreet sold North American rights to Deb Futter at Celadon in a seven-figure deal, at auction. UK rights were sold to Lily Cooper at Penguin Michael Joseph in a six-figure deal, at auction. German rights...

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LC Careers Symposium

Literary Careers Spring Symposium

March 28, 2024

The Literary Careers Spring Symposium set the Barker Center Lounge buzzing with energy and conversation this past Tuesday afternoon. A group of over 50 alumni, students, and authors gathered to discuss professional development, share their work, and enjoy coffee, tea, and pie. Students made new connections and deepened mentorship relationships with alumni and graduate student mentors whom they'd met through LC's previous events. The LC team was also thrilled to host participants from the Dartmouth English Department and Center for Professional Development...

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Form and Power

New Book Release: Form and Power in Medieval and Early Modern Literature: A Book for James Simpson

March 21, 2024
Form and Power in Medieval and Early Modern Literature: A Book for James Simpson, edited by Daniel Donoghue, Sebastian Sobecki, and Nicholas Watson has been released. Further details are included below: 

"This book honors James Simpson, an enormously influential figure in English literary studies. Known for championing once-neglected writers such as Gower, Hoccleve, and Lydgate, Simpson has also pioneered the field of Trans-Reformation studies, dismantling the barrier between the medieval and early modern periods. He has written powerfully about the history of freedoms,... Read more about New Book Release: Form and Power in Medieval and Early Modern Literature: A Book for James Simpson
Houseboard Veronica

New Book Release: The Houseboat Veronica by Josh Bell

March 21, 2024

Josh Bell's first novel, The Houseboat Veronica, is out now from Fiction Collective 2. A description is included below: 

"The mysterious houseboat Veronica motors across a postapocalyptic freshwater lake, inhabited by a black-haired witch and her young male ward. They explore an unfolding world of shape-shifting moons, vampire moths, and submerged witch cemeteries—a world where voluntary imprisonment holds its own appeal and the heart yearns for the delicate dance between blood and power, beauty and terror.

Neither a pirate nor a mere...

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Headley

Maria Dahvana Headley Visits the English Department

March 21, 2024
Maria Dahvana Headley, translator of Beowulf and author of The Mere Wife, visited the department on March 7th to speak with undergraduates enrolled in the Common Courses about Beowulf, translation, and who a story belongs to. It was a lively event, full of students asking good questions. A big thank you to English 20 and 97 instructors Sarah Dimick, Deidre Lynch, and especially Daniel Donoghue for making this possible. 
Peter Sacks Wake

"Peter Sacks: For the Record" at Sperone Westwater

March 7, 2024
New York's Sperone Westwater Gallery presents “Peter Sacks: For the Record,” the artist’s third exhibition with the gallery. Deviating from the traditional structure of the canvas, Sacks incorporates diverse and challenging found materials to examine the totemic power of objects and cycles of societal ruin and rebirth.

In works such as Wake and Fuse, installed in the East gallery, we find luminous color—ocean currents and the green world face us in a poignant celebration of an earth we stand to lose.

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Tara Menon Robert B. Heilman Prize

Tara K. Menon Receives Robert B. Heilman Prize

March 7, 2024
The Sewanee Review recently announced the winners of five awards given annually by the magazine for the finest work published in these pages. The Tate, Lytle, and Spears Prizes are named for distinguished former editors of the Review; the Heilman and Sullivan Awards are named for longtime contributors to and friends of the magazine.

Tara K. Menon was awarded the Robert B. Heilman Prize for the best review published in 2023 for "On the 2022 Booker Prize." Congratulations, Tara!

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