When you think of the word “home,” do you think of just a physical place where you live or do you see it more as a space of belonging and comfort, where memories are made and lives are shared? The event was centered around the recently published anthology “This Is the Place,” a collection of personal essays written by 30 strong, independent female writers exploring the theme of home through their neighbors, marriages, children, etc.
By Samantha Storms
With the careful elegance that comes from only the skill and trained eye of a master, John McPhee sat on the Guthart Cultural Center Theater stage and read from his most recent book,...
Choruses of “Hola chicos” and “¿Cómo estás?” resonated from around the room as students and faculty waited for Álvaro Enrigue and Miguel-Angel Zapata to...
Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer Prize winning author and professor of creative writing at Princeton University, sat down at Hofstra Hall on Oct. 10 to discuss her work and answer questions from students. Later...
By Brianna Holcomb
Arts and entertainment editor
“I never knew that part of being a writer was trying to make sense of the world … In retrospect, I may have always been a writer.”
The...
By Savanna Malloy
staff writer
What occurred on Monday, Feb. 22 in the Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater was not so much a reading in the traditional sense, but more of a multimedia showing, as...
Savanna Malloy
Staff Writer
Hofstra professor and novelist Julia Markus was featured for the third installment of the “Great Writers, Great Readings” series on Wednesday.
Markus has written...
By Medea Giordano - Staff Writer
Hofstra’s second “Great Writers, Great Readings” event of the semester brought Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Karen Russell to campus.
Judging a book...
By Medea Giordano
SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE
Great Writers, Great Readings was launched by Hofstra in 2004 to emphasize the importance of writing and literature in a liberal arts education as well as...
By Ehlayna NapolitanoNEWS EDITOR
Poet and University of Maryland Professor Michael Collier will kick off Hofstra University’s “Great Writers, Great Readings” series on Tuesday, Oct....
