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Fiction

Illustration of James Joyce standing in the doorway of a bookstore
Unlocking 'Ulysses'
Published Spring 2022
Learning to love James Joyce's 100-year-old masterpiece that most of us never begin, let alone finish / Johns Hopkins Magazine
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Ghosts of Cuba
Published Winter 2021
In Escape from Castro's Cuba, author Tim Wendel revisits Cuba and a cast of familiar characters / Johns Hopkins Magazine
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Fiction
21st-century picaresque
Published Winter 2018
Esi Edugyan's 'Washington Black' sketches a portrait of an artist as a young enslaved man fleeing bondage / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Lorrie Moore
Reading series
Lorrie Moore's truth is stranger than fiction
Published Oct 10, 2018
Best-selling author reads from her new collection of essays during her talk at JHU
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Fiction
Estate stories
Published Summer 2018
Delury has a gift for devastating understatement and delicate moments in her debut novel, 'The Balcony' / Johns Hopkins Magazine
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Fiction
Surreal family life
Published Winter 2017
Jean McGarry's collection is an indelible dip into the surreal combination of comedy and drama that overstuffs ordinary family life / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Authors include: (top row, from left) Salman Rushdie, Mary Jo Salter, Andrew Motion; (center row, from left) Tracy K. Smith, Teju Cole, Alice McDermott; (bottom row, from left) Katharine Noel, and Yiyun Li
President's Reading Series
8 notable authors to visit Homewood
Published Sept 12, 2017
Program begins Sept. 26 with reading from novelist Salman Rushdie
Fiction
An uncertain reckoning
Published Spring 2017
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Nonfiction
Framework for rebellion
Published Spring 2017
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Bowery buoy
Published Summer 2015
Jami Attenberg's new novel, Saint Mazie, reads as an unpublished memoir / Johns Hopkins Magazine