Join UCLA English for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: Tea and Conversation with Joan Silber Joan Silber will discuss her writing. This event is followed by Some Favorite Writers: Joan Silber at the Hammer Museum at 7:30pm. Visit the Hammer Museum for full details. Both events are free and open...
Novelist Joan Silber has written nine books of fiction including Improvement (2017), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award. The New York Times calls her most recent novel, Secrets of Happiness (2021), “humane, elegant and wise.” Readings are followed by discussion with the author and UCLA professor Mona...
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William Andrews Clark Lecture on Oscar Wilde Lecture by Joseph Bristow, Distinguished Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles This lecture sheds fresh light on the forty-six-year-old Oscar Wilde’s early death from encephalomeningitis at the shabby Hôtel d’Alsace on Friday, November 30, 1900, in the Latin Quarter of Paris. By drawing on documents held...
Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS) Event
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