WashU Libraries celebrates centenary of acclaimed writer William Gass
The William H. Gass Centenary Celebration and exhibit “William H. Gass: Fifty New Acquisitions” will shed new light on one of America’s most inspired — and intimidating — writers. Gass was author of the masterpieces “Omensetter’s Luck” and “Middle C” as well as three essay collections that won the National Book Critics Circle Awards for criticism.
WashU faculty taking part in Catholic Enlightenment symposium
Rebecca Messbarger, in Arts & Sciences, is among the organizers of a symposium on “The Catholic Enlightenment in Europe, the Americas and Australia (1700-1840),” which will take place at WashU and at Saint Louis University Sept. 20 and 21. Some other faculty also are speaking.
The Mythmakers
The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien
From New York Times bestselling, award-winning creator John Hendrix comes “The Mythmakers,” a graphic novel biography of two literary lions—C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien—following the remarkable story of their friendship and creative fellowship, and how each came to write their masterworks.
Scattered Snows, to the North
Poems
An arresting study of memory, perception, and the human condition, from the Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Phillips. Carl Phillips’s Scattered Snows, to the North is a collection about distortion and revelation, about knowing and the unreliability of a knowing that’s based on human memory. If the poet’s last few books have concerned themselves with power, this one […]
Crossing borders, bridging divides
Using novels and readings from all over the world, an Arts & Sciences course teaches students to look at the stories that exist on both sides of a geopolitical line.
‘Mother’ lode
Katya Apekina’s “Mother Doll” takes on the spirit world, the Russian Revolution, a surprise pregnancy and personal upheaval — and it’s hilarious.
Between Friends & Lovers
Dr Jojo has it all figured out. Or so it seems to her Instagram followers, who love her no-nonsense advice about men, self-love, dating and sex.But behind the camera, it’s a different story — she’s in love with her best friend, Ezra, and he doesn’t feel the same way. Committed to moving on, Jo soon […]
The Winner
A novel
The latest novel by Teddy Wayne, MFA ’06, The Winner is a dark, explosive literary thriller that brilliantly skewers the elite.
Winner’s circle
A new acclaimed novel by Teddy Wayne, MFA ’07, explores class mobility, moral choices and love in the time of COVID.
God Bless the Child
When we first meet Mary Kline in God Bless the Child, Book One of The Women of Paradise County series, she is sewing, her main obsession besides eating. It is hard to blame Mary for who she has become. She’s been perpetually hungry since childhood, and as she becomes a woman, she craves something far more delicious—a child of her own.
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