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Windham-Campbell Prize Recipient Readings

Part of the 2019 Windham-Campbell Festival: https://windhamcampbell.org
The festival’s signature closing event will include short readings by all eight of this year’s prize recipients.
This year’s prize recipients are: in fiction, Danielle McLaughlin (Ireland) and David Chariandy (Canada); in nonfiction, Raghu Karnad (India) and Rebecca Solnit (United States); in poetry, Ishion Hutchinson (Jamaica) and Kwame Dawes (Ghana/Jamaica/United States); in drama, Young Jean Lee (United States) and Patricia Cornelius (Australia).

Yale Program in the History of the Book: “The Medieval Book from the Spheres to the Critical Zone”

The third of this fall’s series on book history and the environmental humanities.
November 13’s event features Sarah Kay, Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture, New York University, on “Medieval Books from the Spheres to the Critical Zone: Lion and Panther Singers and their Manuscripts.”

Gordon Bunshaft and Skidmore Owings & Merrill: A Conversation with Nicholas Adams

Adams, professor emeritus of architectural history at Vassar College, is author of “Gordon Bunshaft and SOM: Building Corporate Modernism,” new from Yale University Press.
He will discuss the life, career, and works of Bunshaft, including the iconic Beinecke Library itself.
From the Yale University Press:
“A nuanced portrait of the 20th-century architect whose work defined the built aesthetic of corporate America

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