The Distinguished Writers Series at Hunter College invites you to join us online as Alex Halberstadt discusses his latest work, Young Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Memoir and a Reckoning. This event will be held online via Zoom. Zoom link will be provided upon RSVP Please download the Zoom app before joining the event […]
Join Hunter College Distinguished Writer in Residence, Mychal Denzel Smith, and author Valeria Luiselli for a lunchtime discussion of Smith’s new book, Stakes Is High. How have the events of the past decade, in particular the election of Donald Trump, forced us to reckon with who we are as a country and who we want […]
The Distinguished Writers Series at Hunter College invites you to join us online as Hernan Diaz discusses his novel In the Distance. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Hernan Diaz has published stories and essays in Cabinet, The New York Times, The Kenyon Review, Playboy, Granta, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. His first […]
In the modern world, everything is connected, including how we kill. Join us for a thrilling evening as author and Hunter alumnus Phil Klay MFA‘11, discusses his debut novel Missionaries with author Matt Gallagher. In Missionaries, Klay, also an Iraq War veteran, examines the globalization of violence through the interlocking stories of four characters and […]
The Distinguished Writers Series at Hunter College invites you to join us online as Major Jackson discusses his book of poetry, The Absurd Man. Major Jackson is the author of five books of poetry, including The Absurd Man (2020), Roll Deep (2015), Holding Company (2010), Hoops (2006) and Leaving Saturn (2002), which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems. His […]
The Distinguished Writers Series at Hunter College invites you to join us online as Claudia Rankine discusses her poetry collection Just Us. Recipient of the 2016 MacArthur Fellowship, Claudia Rankine is the author of five collections of poetry including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don't Let Me Be Lonely; two plays including Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue; […]
The Distinguished Writers Series at Hunter College invites you to join us online as ZZ Packer discusses her short stories collection Drinking Coffee Elsewhere. ZZ Packer's collection of short stories Drinking Coffee Elsewhere won the Commonwealth First Fiction Award, an ALEX Award and was a National Book Award 5 under 35 winner. It became a finalist for […]
Marie Mutsuki Mockett's latest book, American Harvest, is set in seven agricultural and heartland states. It was published by Graywolf Press in 2020 and was a finalist for the Lukas Prize for Nonfiction under the former title A Kernel in God's Eye. Her memoir, Where the Dead Pause and the Japanese Say Goodbye, explores how […]
Please join us for a special evening with Gabriel Byrne and Colum McCann as they discuss Byrne's highly anticipated memoir, Walking with Ghosts. As a young boy growing up in the outskirts of Dublin, Gabriel Byrne sought refuge in a world of imagination among the fields and hills near his home, at the edge of […]
Helen Macdonald is best known for H is for Hawk, which won the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize and Costa Book Award. In 2016, it also won the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger in France. Her other books include Shaler's Fish (2001), Falcon (2006), and her most recent, Vesper Flights (2020). Macdonald has written and narrated several radio programs, and appeared in the […]
