October 10, 2019
Ann Snitow May 9, 1943-August 10, 2019 Ann Snitow, a founding faculty member of Lang College and the creator of the Gender Studies Program at the New School, passed away on August 10, 2019. She was a beloved member of the Literary Studies faculty. While indeed her books and essays are crucial texts in feminist studies and in the life of the mind, as Literary Studies colleagues our remembrances here are more personal, testaments not just to her work but to the power of her being.
March 13, 2016
by Colette Brooks As a culture, we tend to associate imaginative work with fiction; we have traditionally looked to nonfiction for guidance, expertise, and information, and nonfiction that doesn’t satisfy these aims is sometimes confusing. But just what is imagination? I thought it might be useful to consult the dictionary. […]
“Beatty’s book is not the kind of book that American publishers, even literary ones, are typically betting on these days. Satirical, pointed, postmodern, even arch, it is thought of as “difficult”. Many people have described it to me as inaccessible, and at least some of those people are Beatty’s admirers. Beatty is devastatingly funny, but he is also working in a literary register that demands that the reader catch his allusions in order to fully appreciate the book”
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