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Audrey Murray
Memoir
From Russia, with laughs
Published Spring 2019
In her new memoir, Alum Audrey Murray journeys through the former Soviet Union / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Illustration of P.J. O'Rourke
The fan in the econ stands
Published Winter 2018
P.J. O'Rourke talks about learning economics in war zones, how politics and economics intertwine, and how to know when something's funny / 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
Dora Malech
Q+A
Talking with Dora Malech
Published Fall 2018
Poet Dora Malech on experimenting with form and language, working with young writers, and how language shapes what we know and how we feel / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Emily Dorffer
Literature
Discourse on (Dis)Ability
Published May 21, 2018
Emily Dorffer compiled and edited the '(Dis)Ability' anthology to encourage more accurate portrayals of disabled people in literature
Tim Wendel
Q+A
A tale of medical underdogs
Published April 20, 2018
New memoir by JHU writer-in-residence reflects on his younger brother's cancer diagnosis and the doctors who transformed the treatment of childhood leukemia
A man shifts rocks around while two partially harvest agave plants, trimmed of their spiky leaves, rest on the ground
Liquid culture
Published Fall 2017
Writer Granville Greene makes the case for knowing more about the people who made your mezcal / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on stage with crimson curtain backdrop
Foreign Affairs Symposium
'If you're going to create, failure has to come'
Published Feb 9, 2017
Author, activist, and JHU alum Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks politics, race, and writing as part of the Foreign Affairs Symposium
Q+A
Novelist Katharine Noel on family dysfunction
Published Nov 9, 2016
Author, Writing Seminars lecturer reads from her second novel, Meantime, Thursday night at the Ivy Bookshop
Illustration of a man writing letters
Man of letters
Published Fall 2016
For his new book, Michael Kun returns to an old form: the epistolary novel / Johns Hopkins Magazine