Stories about "Language and literature"
Writers from Equatorial Guinea to speak
Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:54 am
Four writers from Equatorial Guinea, the only Spanish-speaking nation in Africa, visit Bates College to give a joint presentation titled "Writing Africa in Spanish: Four Equatorial Guinean Writers Speak of Exiled Dreams" at 4:15 p.m. Tuesday, March 31, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave.
Pulitzer-winning novelist Diaz to speak in Multicultural Center event
Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:42 am
Junot Díaz, whose novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, speaks at Bates College on Friday, March 20. Wao, Díaz's first novel, also won the National Book Critics Circle Award for best novel of 2007 and appeared on more than 35 best-of-the-year book lists.
No News is Bad News
Sunday, March 1, 2009 12:24 pm
The volume of news from Washington, D.C., is growing, but fewer newspaper journalists are around to explain it. At stake, perhaps, is the democratic process.
Scribbling Meets Nibbling
Sunday, March 1, 2009 10:43 am
Poets, essayists put food on the menu at a 'Literary Café'.
Creator of PostSecret Web site to speak in Bates College event
Friday, February 27, 2009 2:17 pm
Frank Warren, creator of an award-winning Web site that has allowed hundreds of thousands of people to anonymously share their secrets through handmade postcards, gives Bates College\'s annual Bertha May Bell Andrews Lecture
Katalin Vecsey reads from acclaimed memoirs of Judith Isaacson '65
Friday, February 6, 2009 3:37 pm
Katalin Vecsey, a member of the Bates College theater faculty, reads from the writings of Holocaust survivor Judith Magyar Isaacson '65 in a free public event.
Poet, prize-winning novelist read from their work at Bates
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 2:57 pm
In 2009's first installment in the Language Arts Live series at Bates College, novelist Magdalena Zurawski and poet CAConrad will read from and discuss their works.
I’m the Girl Talk of Philosophy
Thursday, November 6, 2008 1:29 pm
Concerning mash-up music, debates have been circulating concerning the question of whether a mash-up song should be considered new or not. Is a mash-up song authentic? Is it “real” music? Or is it simply two previously written songs placed together into something that is less novel than it is a rip-off. And what does it mean that computers are so fancy these days that any Joe-shmo can take two of his favorite songs and layer them together? Does that count as authentic?
Poet Craig Morgan Teicher '01 returns for reading
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 2:16 pm
Craig Morgan Teicher '01 returns to Bates to read from his award-winning book of poetry, Brenda is in the Room and Other Poems.
Team Approach
Tuesday, July 1, 2008 12:00 pm
In The Encyclopedia of Sports Parenting, authors Dan Doyle '72 and Deb Doermann Burch help parents manage their athletes less and better.