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Writing seminars

Where the work gets done
Published Jan-Feb 2014 Photos
The convenience of having one's entire office in a machine as slim as a copy of 'The Paris Review' has not made moot the writer's room / Gazette
Of note
Creative collection
Published Jan 6, 2014 Photos
Sheridan Libraries acquire notes, manuscripts, lectures of American fiction writer, essayist, teacher, and 1951 JHU graduate John Barth
Novel Nominee
Could be 'Someone'
Published Sept 19, 2013
Writing Seminars' McDermott on National Book Award longlist for fiction, her third nomination for the award she won in 1998
Book report
Let's talk about race
Published July 30, 2013
Writing Seminars grad paints rich picture of immigrant experience in third novel, 'Americanah'
Q+A with Jessica Anya Blau
Coming of age in the '80s
Published May 29, 2013
Writing Seminars alum talks about her new novel, identity, sex, and Billy Idol
Comically painful portrait
Published March 8, 2013
Jami Attenberg, Writing Seminars alumna, returns to Baltimore for two readings from her third novel, 'The Middlesteins'
The smart set
Published Spring 2013
Author Kristopher Jansma on the writing life—and why a little solitude can be a good thing / Johns Hopkins Magazine
To '30 Rock,' with love
Published Feb 5, 2013
Following the final episode of 30 Rock, a fan remarks on the show's parallels to another comedy classic / The Baltimore Sun
From the archives
On life in the bubble
Published Jan 8, 2013
A profile of Richard Ben Cramer, A&S '71, published in the November 1992 issue of Johns Hopkins Magazine
Mister nice guy
Published Winter 2012
As a cartoonist, Tim Kreider seemed to loathe almost everybody, but his essays tell a different story / Johns Hopkins Magazine