Prepare yourself for the works of  Cassie Condrey. We’ve also got: Laura Campagna, second year fiction. Of her writing she says, “I’m queer and a feminist, and I think you can find those elements in my stories, but I don’t want my work to be didactic. I try to create characters that aren’t normally represented in [...]

I have sometimes felt a significant amount of displeasure while reading workshop pieces. And, for particularly painful ones, when it’s time to take them back to the classroom, I’ve found myself wishing that I’d gotten drunk beforehand, and I don’t like to drink unless there’s a good reason. I get itchy in my seat, and [...]

Just this past week my fellow Emerson graduate students and I received our thesis chair and reader assignments, marking the start of our final push toward MFA-dom. I was nervous when I found out (via Facebook) that the announcements were in, and wondered if I would get my first choice. You see, I’d selected our [...]

Above image of Thanksgiving Turkey courtesy of Rich Man from Flickr Creative Commons. Victor LaValle Location: Barnes and Noble at Emerson College, 114 Boylston Street Time: 6 pm The Good Men Project: Real Stories from the Front Lines Modern Manhood Location: Brookline Booksmith Time: 7 pm Mo Lotman – Harvard Square: An Illustrated History Since [...]

So this is it: the home stretch. A little over a week from today, I will be handing in my thesis to my committee — and so I thought it might be appropriate, at this point, to share my process, with those who are curious, and my misery with those who currently share it.

  Above photo courtesy of mrsmullerauh from Flickr Creative Commons   An Evening With Postsecret’s Frank Warren Please join us as welcome Frank Warren as he discusses the Postsecret phenomona and signs copies of his newest book, Postsecret: Confessions on Life, Death and God. Time: 7 pm Location: Boston University Law Auditorium   Charles London, [...]

Above photo courtesy of Monica Arellano-Ongpin from Flickr Creative Commons. The Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College invites you to an evening with Emerson Faculty. Pablo Medina (The Cigar Roller; Points of Balance / Puntos de Apoyo) and Steve Yarbrough (The End of California; Prisoners of War) will read from their work at the [...]

I’m sure (or at least I hope) we’ve all had a chance to titter at the twin stripclubs located one block down from the Little Building: the Glass Slipper and, for the high rollers in our midst, Centerfolds. Which you prefer is as much a matter of personal taste as it is of personal finance, [...]

Let’s just be honest here: it takes a lot to get me off my ass. I’m not lazy, per se, just not an “above and beyond” kind of girl. (Feel free to disagree here.) But when I finished Jeff Seglin’s column writing class and had already published two small pieces, I began to suspect subliminal [...]

My dirty little secret as an Emerson grad student is that once, many years ago, before I’d cultivated the maturity and thoughtfulness with which I am now clearly brimming… I was an Emerson undergrad. Only for two years, and then I transferred out to finish my BA elsewhere, and I swear I never smoked a [...]