Author and UCLA English Professor Mona Simpson reads from her latest release, Commitment, a masterful novel about a single mother’s collapse and the fate of her family after she enters a California state mental hospital in the 1970s. This event is free and open to the public. Supported in part by UCLA Department of English....
Join UCLA English for a book discussion and reception to celebrate Professor Mona Simpson’s new novel, Commitment. Commitment is a resonant novel about family and duty and the attendant struggles that come when a parent falls ill. The novel honors the spirit of fragile, imperfect mothers and the under-chronicled significance of friends, in determining the...
Art Therapy: Marion Milner's Essays in Psychoanalysis
Join UCLA English for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: Tea and Conversation with Sigrid Nunez Sigrid Nunez will discuss her writing. This event is followed by Some Favorite Writers: Sigrid Nunez at the Hammer Museum at 7:30pm. Visit the Hammer Museum for full details. Both events are free and open to...
National Book Award-winning author Sigrid Nunez shares her most recent novel What Are You Going Through, a meditation on friendship, empathy, and what it means to die well. This event is free and open to the public. Supported in part by UCLA Department of English. Questions about the event? Visit the Hammer Museum for full...
A Barbara L. Packer event featuring Carmen E. Lamas