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Eric Puchner holding a copy of his novel, "Dream State"
Q+A
Life's indignities unfold in darkly engaging 'Dream State'
Published April 11, 2025
Writing Seminars chair Eric Puchner talks with a former advisee about why 'dark books' resonate with readers like Oprah Winfrey, who chose his new bestselling novel, 'Dream State', for her renowned book club
Washington monument on the National Mall in Washington, D.C, USA and Colorful Cherry blossom trees in spring
Arts+Culture
Cherry tree trailblazer
Published March 21, 2024
Alumna biographer Diana Parsell discovers Eliza Scidmore, the forgotten heroine behind Washington's celebrated cherry trees
David Leonhardt
Hopkins in D.C.
Hopkins Bloomberg Center launches Authors & Insights series
Published Oct 30, 2023
Series starts with book events featuring 'New York Times' author and columnist David Leonhardt, SAIS expert Eliot Cohen
Kay Jamison
Psychiatry
A history of healing
Published Summer 2023
Kay Redfield Jamison discusses her latest book, which takes a nonlinear approach to cataloging the history of psychotherapy / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Collage of photos of Gertrude Stein, Robert Wilson, and others
Seeing Robert Wilson plain
Published Winter 2018
Hopkins is home to the bookseller's obsessively collected cache of Gertrude Stein books and ephemera / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Chester Himes is featured left, Robert Lowell is shown right
Nonfiction
Faculty authors included on best books list
Published Dec 7, 2017
Lawrence Jackson, Kay Redfield Jamison recognized for their biographies of 20th century writers
Lester Spence
Best of 2016
Lester Spence gets year-end shoutout from 'The Atlantic'
Published Dec 28, 2016
The Atlantic gives accolades to JHU professor's treatise on neoliberalism
Books
A notable read
Published Dec 2, 2015
Book co-authored by JHU's Kathryn Edin included on 'The New York Times Book Review' list of 100 Notable Books of 2015
Zadie Smith reads from her upcoming novel
President's Reading Series
'Tap dancing, blackness, and time'
Published Nov 4, 2015
British author Zadie Smith shares bits of her unpublished fourth novel, 'Swing, Time'
Q+A
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz talks Dr. Thomas Dent Mutter
Published Sept 14, 2015
Her book 'Dr. Mutter's Marvels' examines the man behind the famed museum of medical oddities