Stuart Dybek passes on the following announcement. He especially wants our graduate students know that he will do a Q&A at this event and try and answer any questions about writing at WMU or any questions they have.
"Stuart Dybek will be honored at a festive public reception, with special refreshments and live music, on Friday, November 16, from 6:30-8:00 pm, at the Kalamazoo Public Library, 315 S. Rose St. The libraries of Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo Valley Community College, and Davenport College, Portage District Library, Kalamazoo Public Library, and the Kalamazoo Gazette invite the entire community to celebrate Mr. Dybek’s amazing achievement in receiving both a 2007 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and the 2007 Rea Award for the Short Story in the same week earlier this fall. KPL Director Ann Rohrbaugh will welcome guests to the reception shortly before 7:00 pm. Marsha Meyer, Portage District Library Adult Services librarian, and Western Michigan University representatives will also talk briefly. Mr. Dybek will then read from his work, answer questions from the audience, and sign his books. The Michigan News Agency will sell his books at the event. A native of Chicago, Dybek served Western Michigan University as a professor of English for 33 years, retiring from active teaching this past spring. According to a WMU News release, he 'remains closely connected to WMU as an adjunct faculty member, and he teaches in the university's renowned Prague Summer Program.' Dybek is now teaching at Northwestern University, as its first Distinguished Writer in Residence.-- Marsha Meyer, Portage District Library, 269-329-4542 ext. 710 mmeyer@portagelibrary.info."
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Russian Festival
The Kalamazoo Russian Festival, which annually attracts hundreds of people from throughout the Midwest to WMU, is Friday and Saturday, Nov. 9-10. The festival includes food, dance, music, crafts and a series of
presentations by WMU faculty members. This event is cosponsored by the Department of English.
http://www.wmich.edu/wmu/news/2007/11/001.html
presentations by WMU faculty members. This event is cosponsored by the Department of English.
http://www.wmich.edu/wmu/news/2007/11/001.html
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Victor LaValle events, November 14
The Gwen Frostic Reading Series is pleased to present fiction writer Victor LaValle Wednesday, November 14. A short Q&A session with the author will begin at 3:30 that afternoon on the 10th floor of Sprau. LaValle's reading will be that evening at 8pm at the Little Theater. Victor LaValle is author of Slapboxing with Jesus (Knopf, 1999), which won the PEN/Open Book Award, and The Ecstatic (Crown, 2002), which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Fiction Award. In 2004 he received a Whiting Writers’ Award. He has been a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and currently teaches creative writing at Columbia University.
Please join us for these, the last events in the Frostic Series this semester, and do encourage your students to attend.
HISPANIC FILM FESTIVAL Fall 2007
1110 Trimpe Hall – Multicultural Center
November 13-15
Tuesday, November 13, 4:00 p.m.
The Spanish Earth (1937), 52 minutes
It has become one of the major films on the Spanish Civil war and one of the most important films in Ivens’s career. Like in many other films, Ivens finds a balance between the daily lives of people and their struggle to survive. The strong photography, mainly by John Ferno, combined with the powerful editing by Helen van Dongen and the commentary of Ernest Hemingway, make the film a masterpiece of documentary film making.
Tuesday, November 13, 6;00 p.m.
La lengua de las mariposas (1999), 99 minutes
Spanish with English subtitles
La lengua de las mariposas (Butterfly) mourns the Spain destroyed by civil conflict by remembering it through the enchanted eyes of a small boy. Moncho is just old enough to begin attending public school. Moncho is blissfully unaware of the tense, political undercurrent that runs beneath his family and his country. He is content to while away his days in the idyllic countryside of Galicia, in northern Spain. There he divides his time between following his older brother’s exploits in a local big band and chasing butterflies with his compassionate schoolteacher and mentor Don Gregorio.
Wednesday, November 14, 6:00 p.m.
Soldados de Salamina (2003), 119 minutes
Spanish with English subtitles
When professor and writer Lola Sánchez is assigned to write a column in the newspaper about the Spanish Civil war, she researches and finds for the first time about the shooting of Rafael Sánchez Mazas. Lola has lost her passion for writing, and she becomes intrigued about Rafael, who was a writer and journalist that returned to Spain from the Italy of Mussolini and was very active in the Spanish fascist party Falange Española.
1110 Trimpe Hall – Multicultural Center
November 13-15
Tuesday, November 13, 4:00 p.m.
The Spanish Earth (1937), 52 minutes
It has become one of the major films on the Spanish Civil war and one of the most important films in Ivens’s career. Like in many other films, Ivens finds a balance between the daily lives of people and their struggle to survive. The strong photography, mainly by John Ferno, combined with the powerful editing by Helen van Dongen and the commentary of Ernest Hemingway, make the film a masterpiece of documentary film making.
Tuesday, November 13, 6;00 p.m.
La lengua de las mariposas (1999), 99 minutes
Spanish with English subtitles
La lengua de las mariposas (Butterfly) mourns the Spain destroyed by civil conflict by remembering it through the enchanted eyes of a small boy. Moncho is just old enough to begin attending public school. Moncho is blissfully unaware of the tense, political undercurrent that runs beneath his family and his country. He is content to while away his days in the idyllic countryside of Galicia, in northern Spain. There he divides his time between following his older brother’s exploits in a local big band and chasing butterflies with his compassionate schoolteacher and mentor Don Gregorio.
Wednesday, November 14, 6:00 p.m.
Soldados de Salamina (2003), 119 minutes
Spanish with English subtitles
When professor and writer Lola Sánchez is assigned to write a column in the newspaper about the Spanish Civil war, she researches and finds for the first time about the shooting of Rafael Sánchez Mazas. Lola has lost her passion for writing, and she becomes intrigued about Rafael, who was a writer and journalist that returned to Spain from the Italy of Mussolini and was very active in the Spanish fascist party Falange Española.
Dybek to be Honored at Public Reception
Award-winning author Stuart Dybek will be honored at a festive public reception, with special refreshments and live music, on Friday, November 16, from 6:30-8:00 pm, at the Kalamazoo Public Library, 315 S. Rose St. The libraries of Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo Valley Community College, and Davenport College, Portage District Library, Kalamazoo Public Library, and the Kalamazoo Gazette invite the entire community to celebrate Mr. Dybek’s amazing achievement in receiving both a 2007 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and the 2007 Rea Award for the Short Story in the same week earlier this fall. KPL Director Ann Rohrbaugh will welcome guests to the reception shortly before 7:00 pm. Portage District Library and Western Michigan University representatives will also talk briefly. Mr. Dybek will then read from his work, answer questions from the audience, and sign his books. The Michigan News Agency will sell his books at the event. The MacArthur Foundation bestows the five-year grant of $500,000, paid in quarterly installments, “to individuals who show exceptional creativity in their work and the prospect for still more in the future.” The Foundation’s website proclaims Dybek to be a “short story writer paying tribute to the literature and iconography of the Old World while exploring the imaginations of contemporary American communities.” The day after receiving the MacArthur “genius grant,” Dybek was selected winner of the 2007 Rea Award for the Short Story with an accompanying $30,000 prize. “Sponsored by the Dungannon Foundation, The Rea Award for the Short Story was established in 1986 by the late Michael M. Rea to encourage short story writing by honoring a living American or Canadian writer who has made a ‘significant contribution to the short story form’.” A native of Chicago, Dybeck served Western Michigan University as a professor of English for 33 years, retiring from active teaching this past spring. According to a WMU News release, he “remains closely connected to WMU as an adjunct faculty member, and he teaches in the university's renowned Prague Summer Program.” Dybek is now teaching at Northwestern University, as its first Distinguished Writer in Residence.
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