The Writer and Her Editor
Celebrated author Deb Olin Unferth and Graywolf Press editorial director Ethan Nosowsky will discuss writing and publishing Sept. 24 and 25 for WashU’s Center for the Literary Arts.
Boy, interrupted
“Homeschooled,” by Stefan Merrill Block, AB ’04, sheds a heartrending light on his educational upbringing.
Kim-Yu wins Newcombe dissertation fellowship
Naomi Kim-Yu, a doctoral candidate in English and a Lynne Cooper Harvey Fellow in American culture studies, both in WashU Arts & Sciences, has won a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.
Hester Blum
Hester Blum follows literary questions beyond the archive and into the environments that shaped them. A leading scholar of environmental humanities, Blum is the Lynne Cooper Harvey Distinguished Professor of English in WashU Arts & Sciences.
SIR
A new book of poems from the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carl Phillips Is this who I must be,or maybe justwhat I am? “Sir” is an honorific, a title that indicates the superiority of its recipient, the subordination of its speaker. Carl Phillips’s SIR examines power and submission, abandon and restraint, whether in our personal, intimate […]
Das’ ‘Faith, Family and Flag’ wins book award
Joanna Dee Das, an associate professor of performing arts in WashU Arts & Sciences, has won the 2026 Book Award from the International Society for the Study of Musicals.
Danielle Dutton and Martin Riker
Now married 21 years, Danielle Dutton and Martin Riker are a literary power couple. Both serve in the English Department in WashU Arts & Sciences and run Dorothy, a publishing project, a small feminist press they founded in 2009. They also are writers themselves.
WashU librarians pick favorite books for National Book Lover’s Day
In honor of National Book Lover’s Day, celebrated annually on Aug. 9, the Record asked librarians to share some of their favorite titles. The result: a tour de force by a WashU alumna, a sweeping epic of German history and one of the globe’s most beloved fantasy novels. All of these titles are available at Olin Library.
99 Problems Finding the 1
a love story (sort of)
Part cultural criticism, part roguish adventure, professor and punk musician G’Ra Asim tackles chronic lovelessness in the post-covid era with heft and humor.
House of Teeth
Gritty, redemptive third installment in contemporary series explores intricacies of small-town American life.
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